{"id":2118,"date":"2010-10-14T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/10\/14\/some-statistics-on-disasters-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T07:59:00","slug":"some-statistics-on-disasters-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/10\/14\/some-statistics-on-disasters-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Some statistics on disasters worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/PICT0251a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/PICT0251a.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;Yesterday was the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisdr.org\/\">United Nations International Day for Disaster Reduction<\/a>, which this year had a strong urban theme.&nbsp; To highlight the event, which has been somewhat overshadowed by the extraordinary rescue of the Chilean miners, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisdr.org\/preventionweb\/files\/15810_2010no24.pdf\">UNISDR put out a press release<\/a> highlighting the costs of disasters worldwide.&nbsp; The statistics are somewhat sobering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So far in 2010 more than 236,000 people have been killed in disasters<\/li>\n<li>256 million people have been affected by disaster events, mostly in urban areas<\/li>\n<li>The cost of disasters in the first nine months of this year is US$81 billion.&nbsp; Most losses&nbsp;are uninsured<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With regard to the vulnerability of urban areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than&nbsp;a billion people live in urban slums<\/li>\n<li>An estimated 3,351 cities are situated&nbsp;in coastal zones that are potentially vulnerable to sea level rise<\/li>\n<li>Six of the ten largest cities are in seismically active areas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To mark the day, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english2010\/china\/2010-10\/13\/c_13556171.htm\">Xinhua <\/a>released statistics on disaster impacts in China this year to date:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Floods, landslides and mudslides have killed 3,313 people so far this year<\/li>\n<li>15.7 million people have had to relocate<\/li>\n<li>Economic losses&nbsp;are estimated to be&nbsp;a staggering US$55.4 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Yesterday was the annual United Nations International Day for Disaster Reduction, which this year had a strong urban theme.&nbsp; To highlight the event, which has been somewhat overshadowed by the extraordinary rescue of the Chilean miners, UNISDR put out a press release highlighting the costs of disasters worldwide.&nbsp; The statistics are somewhat sobering: So far in 2010 more than 236,000 people have been killed in disasters 256 million people have &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,473,327],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-international-day-for-natural-disaster-reduction","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}