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EM-DAT: Disasters of the week
Week 31-2022: August 01 - August 07
Natural disasters: 2022-0477 Floods; Puerto Lempira and Ahuás, Honduras
2022-0478 Wildfires; Lisbon district, Portugal
2022-0479 Wildfires; Croatia
2022-0488 Landslides and floods; Gandaki province, Nepal
2022-0489 Flash floods; Parigi Moutong Regency, Indonesia
2022-0490 Floods; Sri Lanka
2022-0492 Floods; Gambia (the)
2022-0493 Floods; Nepal
2022-0494 Severe weather; Sinaloa state, Mexico
2022-0495 Floods; Jigawa State, Nigeria
2022-0496 Floods; North, Japan
2022-0498 Floods; Dakar region, Senegal
2022-0499 Flash floods; Sonora State, Mexico
2022-0501 Floods; Yemen
2022-0502 Floods and landslides; Philippines
2022-0503 Forest fires; Island of Hvar, Croatia
2022-0504 Severe weather; Italy
2022-0506 Floods; California, United States
2022-0509 Floods; N'Djamena, Chad
2022-0512 Severe weather; United states
2022-0513 Severe weather; Canada
Technological disasters: 2022-0483 Road accident; near Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
2022-0487 Gas leak in a factory; Atchyutapuram, India
2022-0505 Fire and explosions in an oil storage facility; Matanzas, Cuba
2022-0507 Bus Accident; Bosnia and Herzegovina
2022-0508 Fire in a nightclub; Pattaya, Thailand
2022-0509 Collapse of a coal mine; Sabinas (Etat du Coahuila), Mexico
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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