Southern Asia natural disasters between 1975 and 2004

Harbin Shenyang Beijing Taiyuan Tientsin Rawalpindi Delhi Chungking Jaipur Karachi Surat Bombay Bangalore Kanpur

Ahmedabad Poona

Hyderabad Madras Saigon

Kuala Lumpur Singapore

Calcutta Dacca Chittagong Rangoon Bangkok Manila Shantou Kunming Shenzhen Canton

Chengtu Sian

Jinan Nanking Wuhan H Tsingtao Dairen Seoul Osaka Pusan Shanghai Hangchou Fuzhou

Hong Kong Taipei

Nagoya Tokyo Changchun

Number of natural disasters occurred More than 30

11 to 30 6 to 10 1 to 6

None

Major metropolitan areas Million inhabitants

34 20 10 5 3

Sources: based on a map from EM-DAT, OFDA/CREED International Disaster Database; City Population web database, accessed on July 2010.

Jakarta Bandung

Surabaya

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