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EM-DAT: Disasters of the week
Week 33-2022: August 15 - August 21
Natural disasters: 2022-0520 Forest fires; Algeria
2022-0521 Floods; Isabela province, Philippines
2022-0522 Severe weather; New Zealand
2022-0525 Severe storms; France, Italy and Austria
2022-0530 Floods; China
2022-0532 Tropical storm ‘Four’; Bangladesh and India
2022-0539 Floods; Himachal Pradesh, India
2022-0544 Floods; Sumatra Island, Indonesia
2022-0545 Wildfires; Chongqing Municipality, China
2022-0546 Floods; Mauritania
2022-0555 Floods; Texas, USA
2022-9524 Drought; China
Technological disasters: 2022-0535 Collision between a bus and oil truck; Multan, Pakistan
2022-0540 Road accident; Gaziantep, Turkey
2022-0541 Road accident; Derik (Mardin province), Turkey
2022-0542 Collision between two trucks and a minibus; Oulianovsk (Volga), Russia
Welcome to the EM-DAT website
In 1988, the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) launched the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT). EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Belgian Government.
The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. The initiative aims to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as provide an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting.
EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 22,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to the present day. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies.
Data access policy new public EM-DAT tool
The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) within the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) provides free access to the full Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) for non-commercial purposes. Users on behalf of academic organizations, universities, non-profit organisations and/or international public organization (UN agencies, multi-lateral banks, other multi-lateral institution and national governments), are granted free access to EM-DAT, after acceptance of the present conditions of use.
Users representing an entity with a Commercial use, e.g. corporations, private companies, commercial partnerships, or other business organizations, must contact EM-DAT database manager (regina.below@uclouvain.be) regarding access. Access shall be granted to EM-DAT upon proof of payment of the corresponding annual fee, as agreed upon in the Database License Agreement.
Visit https://public.emdat.be/ to register and access our new public EM-DAT query tool.
Contact regina.below@uclouvain.be or contact@cred.be for more information.
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