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Page 1: Top 10 Natural Disasters Soviet Union - United …unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/...Soviet Union Top 10 Natural Disasters Disaster Date Killed Famine 1932 5,000,000

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