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EM-DAT: Disasters of the week
Week 16-2023: April 17 - April 23
Natural disasters: 2023-0231 Severe weather; Kasaï Central Province, Cono (Dem Rep)
2023-0232 Landslides; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
2023-0233 Severe weather; Rio Grande do Sul State), Brazil
2023-0234 Heat wave; Maharashtra state, India
2023-0239 Convective storms; Midwest and South states, USA
2023-0243 Wildfires; Pyrénées-Orientales Department, France
2023-0244 Floods and landslides; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
2023-0245 Floods; Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
2023-0246 Tropical Depression ‘Amang’; Philippines
2023-0247 Floods; Angola
2023-0248 Tornado; Naypyitaw capital city, Myanmar
2023-0249 Floods; Sumatra Is., Indonesia
2023-0250 Sangay volcano eruption; Ecuador
2023-0252 Convective storm; Kahramanmaras Province, Turkey
2023-0254 Convective storm ; Bangladesh
Technological disasters: 2023-0230 Fire in an hospital; Changfeng, China
2023-0251 Stampede; Sanaa, Yemen
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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