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Hotspots for Global Natural Disasters

The highest risk areas are those where disasters both occur the most frequently and experiences the highest losses. Such losses include the combination of human and economic losses in addition to the external costs of relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction. Global natural disasters come at the cost of both economics and humanitarian aid in economically and environmentally vulnerable locations. However, mortality and economic risk is based on not only geography, but socioeconomic status.

Cyclones

High aggregate economic risk areas include the eastern United States, the United Kingdom, India, Asia, Caribbean. Mortality risk for cyclones is highest along the Pacific and Indian coastlines, the Bay of Bengal, the Caribbean and Central America.

Drought

There is significant risk on all continents. Europe, Central America, and Western Africa have the highest risk.

Floods

There is lower relative risk in the eastern United States, whereas high relative risk in both mortality and economic in North Africa, India, China, and parts of Asia.

Earthquakes

Areas of higher earthquake risk usually have higher average populations and GDP densities. For instance, the US has high economic risk, but low mortality risk. On the other hand, the Himalayan region has high mortality risk, but minimal economic risk.

Volcanoes

Mortality and economic risks are high in localized areas around volcanoes, with activity mainly in Central and South America, East Africa and Indonesia.

Landslide

There are high mortality and economic losses in Central America, northwestern South America, the caucasus region and Taiwan. Mortality risks are higher in the Himalayan region, Philippines and Indonesia, but lower in Southern Europe and Japan where economic risks are higher.