Global Natural Disaster Deaths, 1990-2004

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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)

YearDroughtEarthquakeHeatFloodSlidesVolcanoWave/SurgeWild FiresWind StormTotal
1990042,8849922,20321433004,92651,252
199102,4548355,9368146831090146,970157,792
199204,0353885,3671,070001221,33512,317
1993010,0881065,9301,498995932,96820,751
199401,2374166,41328010131844,08112,643
199507,7391,7308,1541,49700293,72422,873
199605693007,1711,155427454,21713,488
19975203,2196196,95880153400325,33017,932
19982607,3913,2259,68998102,18210924,65748,494
199904,73977134,367351037011,90452,205
20003702169226,4291,02301471,13810,146
200119921,3361,6534,66269200331,81830,393
20025331,6343,3694,1221,149200061,11212,125
2003929,61748,2283,71870600471,00283,327
200418822396,9573572226,435146,513241,400

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