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EM-DAT: Disasters of the week
Week 51-2021: December 13 - December 19
Natural disasters: 2021-0801 Earthquake; Flores IsL, Indonesia
2021-0802 Severe weather; Tijuana City, Mexico
2021-0811 Severe weather; Eastern Cape Province; South Africa
2021-0812 Floods and landslides; Indonesia
2021-0813 Typhoon ‘Rai’; Philippines
2021-0815 Severe weather; Mississippi Valley & Midwest, United States
2021-0816 Floods; New Zealand
2021-0817 Tropical depression ‘Twentynine’; Malaysia
2021-0818 Floods; Kurdistan, Iraq
2021-0821 Floods; Pahang, Malaysia
2021-0823 Floods; West Sumatra and West Sulawesi, Indonesia
Technological disasters: 2021-0800 Road accident and explosion of an oil tanker; Cap-Haitien, Haiti
2021-0808 Shipwreck with migrants; Malaysia
2021-0819 Fire in a hospital; Osaka, Japan
2021-0820 Gas explosion; Karachi, Pakistan
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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