Disasters Worldwide 1.0
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Disasters Worldwide - Disasters wordwide from 1900-2008
Disasters wordwide from 1900-2008
A comprehensive listing of of over 17,000 disasters, natural and otherwise, from around the globe.
Since 1988 the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been maintaining an Emergency Events Database EM-DAT. EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the WHO and the Belgian Government.
The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. For example, it allows on to decide whether floods in a given country are more significant in terms of its human impact than earthquakes or whether a country is more vulnerable than another for computing resources is.
EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 16,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies.
This is only public domain natural disaster database around (two other global sources are private: Sigma from Swiss Re and NatCat from Munich Re).
The EM-DAT database is protected by the law of 30 June 1994 on copyright and the law of 31 August 1998 on the legal protection of databases.
EM-DAT was created in 1988 at the Université Catholique de Louvain by researchers at the Centre de Recherche sur l’Epidemiologie des Desastres – Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The database was set up with the support of the WHO and the Belgian government. Since 1999, CRED has received support from the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The Université Catholique de Louvain holds the copyright for the database.
The EM-DAT database has been made available for unrestricted access free of charge by UCL so that anyone with a query can obtain information.
EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be – Université Catholique de Louvain – Brussels – Belgium.
About Disasters Worldwide
Disasters Worldwide is a free app for Android published in the Teaching & Training Tools list of apps, part of Education.
The company that develops Disasters Worldwide is Thomas Maher. The latest version released by its developer is 1.0.
To install Disasters Worldwide on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2013-12-21 and was downloaded 5 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Disasters Worldwide as malware as malware if the download link to com.jimsuplee.disastersworldwide is broken.
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