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EM-DAT: Disasters of the week
Week 35-2022: August 29 - September 4
Natural disasters: 2022-0556 Severe weather; Haiti
2022-0557 Severe weather; Midwest and South Regions, USA
2022-0558 Severe weather; Morelos State, Mexico
2022-0559 Flash floods and landslides; Kerala state, India
2022-0568 Wild fire; California, USA
2022-0570 Flash floods and mudslides; Western & southern Western Regions, Uganda
2022-0571 Floods and landslides; Sumatra and Kalimantan provinces, Indonesia
2022-0572 Floods; Sinaloa and Oaxaca states, Mexico
2022-0573 Severe weather; Spain
2022-0574 Storm; Saxony and Thuringia, Germany
2022-0575 Convective storm; China
2022-0576 Flood; Dakar region, Senegal
2022-0578 Cholera outbreak; Maradi and Zinder, Niger
2022-0582 Landslide; Kasese District, Uganda
2022-0585 Flash floods; Plovdiv province, Bulgaria
Technological disasters: 2022-0563 Road accident; Bekasi (Java), Indonesia
2022-0564 Shipwreck with migrants; Tolmeta, Libya
2022-0565 Collision between a bus and a truck; Shoushtar (Khouzestan province), Iran (Islam Rep)
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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