Natural Disasters on the Rise

[packman]

America, India and China - Makes one wonder about a common link - :

According to the UN’s disaster-monitoring system, America sits alongside China and India in suffering the greatest number of natural disasters globally between 1995 and 2015. These include earthquakes, storms, floods and heatwaves that either cause at least ten deaths, affect more than 100 people or prompt the declaration of a national emergency.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-chart-19

[greeny2323]

1. Some

Well climate change accounts for some of that.

[B2G]

2. Building in prone areas accounts for some of this.

Expansion into flood zones, coastal development and expanding suburbs plays a very large role here as well.

[lunatica]

3. Actually the number of natural disasters started at 70-163 would also cover the 164-472

And those cover much more of the global map.

[lapfog_1]

4. population plus infrastructure (buildings, etc).

either a concentration of people that can be hurt or collection of expensive buildings, highways, etc that can be damaged.