2010年是自然灾害最重的年之一
2010 'one of worst' years for disasters: UN2010 was one of the worst years on record for natural disasters over the past two decades, leaving nearly 297,000 people dead, research for the United Nations showed on Monday.
A man washes on the street in Port-au-Prince in 2010.
The devastating earthquake in Haiti a year ago accounted for about two thirds of the toll, killing more than 222,500 people, according to the Belgium-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
The CRED found that the summer heatwave in Russia was the second deadliest disaster of the year, leaving 55,736 people dead according to figures it compiled from insurers and media reports of official sources.
The year was "one of the worst in decades in terms of the number of people killed and in terms of economic losses," Margareta Wahlstroem, UN special representative for disaster risk reduction, told journalists.
"These figures are bad, but could be seen as benign in years to come," she said, pointing to the impact of unplanned growth of urban areas, environmental degradation and climate change.
The economic cost of the 373 major disasters recorded in 2010 reached 109 billion dollars, headed by an estimated 30 billion dollars in damage caused by the powerful earthquake that struck Chile in February.
The earthquake unleashed a tsunami that swept away villages and claimed most of the 521 dead.
Summer floods and landslides in China caused an estimated 18 billion dollars in damage, while floods in Pakistan cost 9.5 billion dollars, according to the CRED's annual study.
Although impoverished Haiti is still struggling to recover from the quake that devastated much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, it ranked lower down the global economic scale with an estimated eight billion dollars in losses.
Asians accounted for 89 percent of the 207 million people affected by disasters worldwide last year, the CRED said. 塔希提的地震竟然导致22.5万人死亡，占全年总共因灾致死人数29.7万人的大多数（近75%）。
俄国的热浪也能致死5.5万人，厉害。玉树舟曲算起来也只不过零头。
2010年的373起主要灾害性事件（我国的玉树地震和舟曲泥石流应该算在里面的）一共导致全球1090亿美元的经济损失。
这个数字大概可以算厉害吧，但是要知道，3年前的2008年，光5月份一个纳尔吉斯旋风就致死十余万人，汶川地震也导致中国数万人的死亡，所以2010只算是“最重的年之一”。 塔希提的地震竟然导致22.5万人死亡，占全年总共因灾致死人数29.7万人的大多数（近75%）。
俄国的热浪也能致死5.5万人，厉害。玉树舟曲算起来也只不过零头。
2010年的373起主要灾害性事件（我国的玉 ...
li0627 发表于 2011-3-3 16:19 http://www.21cma.net/images/common/back.gif
莉莉太不给力了。。。Haiti是海地，不是塔希提。。。
塔希提（Tahiti）是大溪地。。。 囧，超级不给力，海地塔希提傻傻没清楚……
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