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Sov ie t Union
Top 10 Natural Disasters
Disaster Date Killed
Famine 1932 5,000,000
Epidemic 1917 2,500,000
Drought 1921 1,200,000
Earthquake 5-Oct-1948 110,000
Earthquake 7-Dec-1988 25,000
Earthquake 21-Oct-1907 12,000
Slide 1949 12,000
Earthquake 13-Dec-1902 4,562
Earthquake 10-Jul-1949 3,500
Earthquake 1934 456
Disaster Date Affected
Epidemic 1923 18,000,000
Drought 1921 5,000,000
Earthquake 7-Dec-1988 1,642,000
Earthquake 31-Aug-1986 225,558
Earthquake 26-Apr-1966 100,000
Flood 27-Apr-1991 40,000
Earthquake 19-Mar-1984 20,100
Earthquake 14-Jun-1990 20,008
Flood Feb-1987 16,000
Earthquake 2-Apr-1983 14,000
Note: Soviet Union divided into seperate countries in late 1991, after that all natural disasters in that area included in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan.
Source: "EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database,
Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium"
http://www.cred.be/emdat/intro.htm Access time: 05/01/2003