Flood Venezuela Hydrometeorological events
10 15 20 25
0 5
45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0
1 000 900
800 700 600 500 400 300 200
100 0
1970-1979 0
40 30 20 10
1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2009 1970
Affected people Millions of people
Thousands of people
Tropical cyclon Fifi Honduras 1974
1980 1990
in Latin America and the Caribbean Mortalities
Tropical cyclon Mitch Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El
Guadalupe, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
1998 2000 1999
Flood Haiti and Dominican Rep. Tropical cyclon Jeanne Haiti
Salvador, Costa Rica and Belize. Tropical cyclon Georges Cuba, Dominican Rep.,
2004
Tropical cyclon Stan Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, Haiti,
Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica
2005 2010
Events
Wildfires Extreme temperatures
Storms Drought
Floods
Each square represents 10 events
Estimated cost of damage Billions of US dollars
Source: The International Disasters Database, accessed in August 2010. Figure 1.10 13
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