Global Natural Disaster Deaths, 1990-2004

Police shovel debris as they continue their search through the rubble for unrecovered bodies of earthquake and fire victims in the Nagata section of Kobe Tuesday, Jan. 24, 1995. Nagata was one of the worst hit areas where hundreds of small houses burned to ashes in the fire that followed the earthquake of Magnitude 7.2 on Jan. 17. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami)

Year	Drought	Earthquake	Heat	Flood	Slides	Volcano	Wave/Surge	Wild Fires	Wind Storm	Total
1990	0	42,884	992	2,203	214	33	0	0	4,926	51,252
1991	0	2,454	835	5,936	814	683	10	90	146,970	157,792
1992	0	4,035	388	5,367	1,070	0	0	122	1,335	12,317
1993	0	10,088	106	5,930	1,498	99	59	3	2,968	20,751
1994	0	1,237	416	6,413	280	101	31	84	4,081	12,643
1995	0	7,739	1,730	8,154	1,497	0	0	29	3,724	22,873
1996	0	569	300	7,171	1,155	4	27	45	4,217	13,488
1997	520	3,219	619	6,958	801	53	400	32	5,330	17,932
1998	260	7,391	3,225	9,689	981	0	2,182	109	24,657	48,494
1999	0	4,739	771	34,367	351	0	3	70	11,904	52,205
2000	370	216	922	6,429	1,023	0	1	47	1,138	10,146
2001	199	21,336	1,653	4,662	692	0	0	33	1,818	30,393
2002	533	1,634	3,369	4,122	1,149	200	0	6	1,112	12,125
2003	9	29,617	48,228	3,718	706	0	0	47	1,002	83,327
2004	1	882	239	6,957	357	2	226,435	14	6,513	241,400

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