10 years of technical and natural catastrophes

Magazine Issue:

Atlas Magazine, special n°100 [3]

Magazine date:

Aug 2013

Source: "EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
www.em-dat.net - Université Catholique de Louvain - Brussels - Belgium"

	Country	Location	Date	Nature	Number of deaths	Number of affected people
1	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah, Makkah	24/11/2009	Floods	161	10 000
2	Yemen	Tarim, Sah, Shibam, Qatun	23/10/2008	Floods	90	25 064
3	Oman	Muscat	6/06/2007	Cyclone "Gonu"	76	20 000
4	Yemen	Al-Dhafeer	28/12/2005	Landslide	65	11
5	Yemen	NA	1/08/2007	Floods	50	NA
6	Yemen	Hadramaut	23/03/2007	Floods	36	618
7	Saudi Arabia	Assir, Jeddah	28/04/2005	Floods	34	NA
8	Oman	Nizwa, Muscat	14/04/2003	Storm	30	NA
9	Saudi Arabia	Medina	22/01/2005	Floods	29	67
10	Yemen	Dhamar, Hodeidah, Manakhah	3/04/2006	Floods	25	320
11	Iraq	Khalifan	5/11/2006	Floods	20	18 020
12	Saudi Arabia	Western Region	14/04/2012	Floods	19	NA
13	Oman	Muscat	6/06/2010	Cyclone ’Phet’	16	NA
14	Yemen	Hijja, Ta’izz	19/06/2003	Floods	15	NA
15	Yemen	Mishanna region	10/07/2010	Floods	15	NA
16	Oman	Muscat	3/11/2011	Cyclone Keila	14	200
17	Saudi Arabia	Assir, Jizan, Najran	23/07/2010	Floods	14	NA
18	Yemen	NA	20/08/2005	Floods	12	6
19	Saudi Arabia	Makkah	11/11/2003	Floods	12	50
20	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	25/01/2011	Floods	11	NA

	Country	Location	Date	Nature	Number of deaths	Number of affected people
1	Iraq	Baghdad	31/08/2005	Hustle over a bridge	1199	826
2	Yemen	Red Sea, Gulf of Aden	30/11/2007	Marine catastrophe	99	NA
3	Yemen	Red Sea, Gulf of Aden	15/12/2007	Marine catastrophe	95	NA
4	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	15/09/2003	Fire in a prison	94	23
5	Lebanon	Beirut	25/01/2010	Crash of a Boeing 737-800	90	NA
6	Yemen	Gulf of Aden	4/01/2003	Marine catastrophe	80	25
7	Saudi Arabia	Makkah	5/01/2006	Collapse of a building	76	62
8	Iraq	Near Diwanijah	29/08/2006	Explosion of an oil pipeline	74	94
9	Yemen	Abyane province	28/03/2011	Explosion of an amunitions factory	70	90
10	Yemen	Gulf of Aden	13/09/2009	Marine catastrophe	65	NA
11	Yemen	Gulf of Aden, Shabwa	20/02/2011	Marine catastrophe	57	1
12	Bahrain	Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman bridge	30/03/2006	Sinking of the boat « Banoosh »	53	60
13	Yemen	Near Chabwa	22/03/2011	Marine catastrophe	49	1
14	Yemen	Near Bourom	17/06/2009	Marine catastrophe	47	NA
15	Yemen	Gulf of Aden	13/09/2003	Marine catastrophe	45	NA
16	Kuwait	Al Jahra	15/08/2009	Wedding tent fire	44	76
17	Lebanon	Banyas, Jabli, Lattakia	17/12/2009	Sinking of the cargo ship «Danny F II»	44	39
18	United Arab Emirates	Charjah	10/02/2004	Crash of a Fokker 50	43	2
19	Iraq	Tigris river	30/11/2004	Sinking of a ferry-boat	40	NA
20	Saudi Arabia	Haradh & Uthmaniyah	17/12/2007	Gaz pipeline fire	40	10