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2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE YEAR OF “RECORD AND NEAR-RECORD” NATURAL DISASTERS

2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE YEAR OF “RECORD AND NEAR-RECORD” NATURAL DISASTERS. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA. 2010 Earthquakes, Floods, Volcanic Eruptions, Severe Windstorms, Tsunamis, Landslides, Droughts, and Blizzards.

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2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE YEAR OF “RECORD AND NEAR-RECORD” NATURAL DISASTERS

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  1. 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:THE YEAR OF “RECORD AND NEAR-RECORD” NATURAL DISASTERS Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

  2. 2010Earthquakes, Floods, Volcanic Eruptions, Severe Windstorms, Tsunamis, Landslides, Droughts, and Blizzards WAVE AFTER WAVE OF NATURAL DISASTERS THAT KILLED OVER 260,000 AND CAUSED DIRECT ECONOMIC LOSSES OF AT LEAST $222 BILLION

  3. 2010… And the Impacts of a Record Environmental Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and Global Climate Change DIRECT ECONOMIC LOSSES ESTIMATED AT $50 BILLION and INDIRECT LOSSES AT ??

  4. M7.0 Haiti Earthquake that killed 230,000, largely because of the inadequacy of the building code, leaving survivors stuck in tent cities battling a cholera outbreak and health-care problems for the rest of the year – January 12th THE DEADLIEST DISASTERS OF 2010

  5. DEATH TOLL REACHED AN ESTIMATED 230,OOO+

  6. Heat Wave that destroyed one-third of Russia’s wheat crop and a week of Wildfires that came close to the radioactive waste land –July 29 THE DEADLIEST DISASTERS OF 2010

  7. RUSSIA: 600 WILDFIRES BURNING IN 7 REGIONS

  8. Floods that inundated one-fifth of Pakistan –July 29 THE DEADLIEST DISASTERS OF 2010

  9. ONE-FIFTH OF PAKISTAN AFFECTED

  10. Floods and wildfires that wipe out crops in Russia and Pakistan (and other nations like Peru) drive up food prices for the poorest nations, spend more than 75 percent of household income on imported grains.

  11. A rare volcanic eruption in Iceland that paralyzed air traffic in Europe for days. PARALYZING DISASTERS OF 2010

  12. Eyjafjallajökull: UNDER A GLACIER; MARCH 27, 2010

  13. ASH CLOUD FROM APRIL 14 ERIPTION

  14. A blanket of snow and a Nor’easter that paralyzed the Washington, D.C. area and eastern seaboard. PARALYZING DISASTERS OF 2010

  15. In a 24-hour period in October, Indonesia suffered a deadly magnitude 7.7 earthquake, a tsunami that killed more than 500 people and a volcanic eruption that caused more than 390,000 people to leave habitats and livestock and flee to evacuation centers that had inadequate health care facilities. One of the hardest hit nations in 2010 -- INDONESIA

  16. A M7.7 EARTHQUAKE, A 3 M-TSUNAMI-WAVE RUN UP, AND A LONG ERUPTION OF MOUNT MERAPI CAUSED LOSSES IN THE TENS OF MILLIONS, DISPLACED OVER 340,000, KILLING NEARLY 1,000 , AND POTENTIALLY AFFECTING THE HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THOUSANDS,

  17. The M7.7 earthquake generated a near-source tsunami with 3 m (10 ft) waves that struck within 5 minutes after the quake---so quickly that the regional tsunami warning system that was improved after the December 26, 2004 tsunami disaster, was ineffective..

  18. TSUNAMI WAVE RUN UP IN MENTAWAI ISLAND

  19. MOUNT MERAPI AKA “FIRE MOUNTAIN” • Mount Merapi has a history of starting full scale eruptions with a heat, or pyroclastic cloud, and a lava flow.

  20. 70,000 EVACUATED AS ERUPTION CONTINUES: NOV 2

  21. ERUPTIONS CONTINUES : NOV 6

  22. MERAPI’S ERUPTIONS CONTINUE : NOV 10

  23. Three active hurricanes in motion at the same time. With nineteen named storms, 2010 is now tied with 1995 as the second most active season in history. ATLANTIC BASIN HURRICANE SEASON

  24. HURRICANE TOMAS WAS THE LAST STORM OF THE 2010 SEASON

  25. Tomas, as a CAT 2 storm, was the “the worst in Saint. Lucian history,” causing the loss of its entire banana crop, which along with tourism, is extremely important to Saint Lucia’s economy..

  26. TOMAS: IMPACTS SAINT LUCIA

  27. Hurricane Tomas, which intensified overnight on Thursday (Nov. 4) to CAT 1, is bearing down on Haiti, a country with a triple disaster: 1) the January 12, 2010 earthquake, 2) cholera affecting at least 6,700 people, and 3) more than 1 million people still living in tents..

  28. A TREELESS, LANDSLIDE-PRONE HAITI FACING TOMAS, A RAINMAKER

  29. HAITIAN’S POOREST OF THE POOR WITH NO PLACE TO GO

  30. LEONGANE: COPING WITH OLD AND NEW DISASTERS, NOV 5

  31. The explosion of British Petroleum’s Deep Water Horizon oil rig set into motion an environmental disaster and a huge cleanup operation costing billions of dollars. RECORD OIL SPILL (LEAK) IN GULF OF MEXICO

  32. DEEP WATER HORIZON: APRIL 22

  33. Climate change creates “blocking episodes,” physical conditions that prevent humidity or heat from dispersing naturally, thereby creating long-lasting snow or rain storms, or prolonged hot, dry spells---United Nations. CLIMATE CHANGE CONTINUES to be blamed as AN exacerbating factor

  34. REALITY CHECK:We're now in La Nina (a period of ocean cooling), so we should be getting ready for a very cold winter in 2010 and 2011.

  35. Unless we devise and implement a realistic, new, dynamic strategy of capacity building, the next disaster may be upon us much faster than we can recover from the last one and we will all share in an unnecessary reduction in our quality of life. THE REALITY CHECK OF 2010

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