Natural catastrophes: a year, an event (2003-2023)

Losses in millions USD

Date	Event	Country	Number of victims	Economic losses	Insured losses
02/2023	Earthquakes	Turkey, Syria	Over 50 000	100 000	Over 5 000
09-10/2022	Hurricane Ian	United States, Cuba	107	100 000	30 000-63 000
08-09/2021	Hurricane Ida	United States, Canada	114	95 000	36 000
07/2020	Floods	China	158	28 500	2 800
09-10/2019	Typhoons Faxai and Hagibis	Japan	74	20 000	15 000
11/2018	Camp fires	California, United States	86	16 500	12 000
08-09/2017	Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria	United States	324	Over 290 000	80 000
09/2016	Hurricane Matthew	The Caribbean	734	8 000	4 000
04/2015	Earthquake	Nepal	9 000	6 800	180
02/2014	Winter storm	Japan	37	5 900	3 100
05/2013	Floods	Central Europe	26	17 500	4 500
10/2012	Hurricane Sandy	United States, the Caribbean, Canada	237	70 000	30 141
03/2011	Earthquake, tsunami	Japan	18 450	250 000	42 000
02/2010	Earthquake, tsunami	Chile	562	37 000	9 840
01/2009	Winter storm Klaus	France, Spain	25	7 740	4 000
09/2008	Hurricane Ike	United States, the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico	193	40 000	22 577
01/2007	Winter storm Kyrill, floods	Northern Europe	54	13 000	7 600
05/2006	Earthquake	Java, Indonesia	6 000	4 000	50
08/2005	Hurricane Katrina	United States, Gulf of Mexico	1 836	135 000	80 699
12/2004	Tsunami	South East Asia	220 000	18 460	2 840
05/2003	Boumerdes earthquake	Algeria	2 266	7 290	50

Source: Atlas Magazine

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