Global Disaster Report: Swiss Re

2016 Disasters killed about 10,000 and cost USD158 billion

Total economic losses from all disasters are estimated at US$158 billion in 2016 ($94 billion losses in 2015 ), according to Swiss Re. [Disasters caused by ISIL and their backers, and the toll from their terrorists acts are not included in the Swiss Re preliminary sigma estimates.]

• Insured losses: $49 billion ($37 billion in 2015)
• Casualties: 10,000 people lost their lives [more than  250,000 injured: Blog Models.]
• Earthquakes, hail and thunderstorms, and Hurricane Matthew resulted in the largest insured losses in 2016.

Major disasters in 2016 included

• Hurricane Matthew and severe storms in the US
• Widespread flooding in the US, Europe and Asia
• Earthquakes in Taiwan, Japan, Ecuador, Italy and New Zealand
• Wildfires in Canada

Source: http://www.swissre.com/

Man-made Major Disaster Looming in China

Fire-Earth Forecast: The next wave of man-made, or human-enhanced disasters could strike China

Continued…

Related Links:

• 2010 Disasters
• 2010 Disaster Calender [May]

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Australia: World’s Smallest Continental Dust Bowl

Another Dust Storm Sweeps North Central Australia

Another dust storm blew across Australia’s Northern Territory and Queensland on October 26, 2009, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead. This true-color image shows the dust plume traveling eastward. In Northern Territory, the dust passes south of Newcastle Waters. In Queensland, the plume skirts a cluster of fires—roughly marked by red outlines—that send their smoke plumes northward. NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption by Michon Scott. Edited by FEWW

Related Links:

• Could Dust Storms Bury Sydney, Australia?
• How Large Is Your Dust Storm?

• And dust to dust …
• Australia: Uranium Dust Threat Real?
• Australia: What can burn, will!

• Image of the Day: Human Excesses
• Australian fires toll may exceed 200
• A Living Hell Heated by Australian Coal
• Torrential Rains Flood Northern Australia

• You want to lose weight without exercise?
• Australian Coal and the Planet
• Vast swarms of locusts sweep across Australia
• Murray-Darling River Communities Are Struggling
• Hell Hath No Fury Like the Australian… Bushfire!
• The day God [sic] washed his hands off St. Andrew’s church

• The Mesopotamian Dust Bowl
• Iraq Faces Environmental Catastrophe
• Riyadh City May Collapse by 2010
• Iraq Ecocide Nears Totality
• Image of the Day: Sandstorm in Saudi Desert

• First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Future Scenarios
• Nuking Earth for Lifestyle
• World Problems: The Root Cause Matrix
• Giga Trends
• World CO2 Emissions

• Look me straight in the eye & tell me you can’t
• Protect Economy from Climate??!
• Blind scientists examining the economic elephant
• How Much Carbon Dioxide Does Your Money Make?
• Cosmic Scale Evil
• Index of Human Impact on Nature

• New York Cognitive Dissonance

• Carbon Footprint of Your Dollar
• The Billionaires’ contribution to CO2 pollution
• Stop Burning Earth
• Energy: 286W

• Failing Ecosystems

Australian Oil Disaster Links:

• Australia Fails to Plug Oil Leak in Timor Sea
• Timor Sea Oil Slick: Growing Australian Disaster
• Major Ecological Disaster Underway in Timor Sea
• Australian Oil Disaster May Get a Lot Worse

• The Australian Clean Energy Ruse
• Australia declares ‘natural’ disaster [again]
• Stick the Policies, Stop the Climate Change!

• How Much Oil Pollution Is Too Much?
• FEWW Earthquake Forecast: Timor Sea
• Magnitude 6.8 EQ Strikes BANDA SEA
• Australia hit by another man-made disaster