2010 Disaster Calendar

Click below links for Back-to-Back Disaster Diary in the corresponding months:

January 2010 | February 2010 | March 2010 | April 2010 | May 2010 | June 2010 | July 2010 | August 2010 | September 2010 | October 2010 | November 2010 | December 2010

[Note: This listing is by no means exhaustive.]

What’s a Disaster?

FEWW Definition of Disaster adopted from CRED: Fire-Earth considers an event a disaster if it fits at least one of the following criteria:

• At least 10 people were killed.
• The event affected 100 or more people.
• A state of emergency was declared.
• A disaster was declared.
• Federal or international assistance was requested.

Disasters caused by war/political unrest

The Disaster Calendar is apolitical. Whether large numbers of NATO forces, US soldiers, police employees, etc., are killed by “insurgents,” protesters and the like, or the other way around, the calendar records both types of incidents as disasters.

UNISDR definition of disaster:

A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.

Cost of Disaster in 2009

Catastrophes cost insurers $26b in 2009, Swiss Re [re-insurers] reported, while estimating the wider economic losses at $62 billion, which means more than a half of all damage caused by catastrophes in 2009 was uninsured (hint!)

Related Links:

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Index of Human Impact on Nature (HIoN) March 2008
• 2010: The Year of Disasters
• Earth’s Human Induced Antiphase Nears Completion

• 2011 SIX TIMES MORE DISASTROUS THAN 2010

“The antiphase will rapidly transform humans into vicious animals, fighting each other for water, food, fuel, land and all other dwindling natural resources. The fighting, in turn, enhances the positive feedbacks, accelerating the downward spiral.” —EDRO

Note: IF the numbers of fatalities/casualties in a given disaster are claimed to be larger than a few hundreds, and no video or photographic evidence is presented to support the claim, those figures should be carefully analyzed. Governments and aid organizations invariably exaggerate the casualty figures to maximize the inflow of aid and donations for self-serving purposes and interests other than those of the victims. See footnote athttp://feww.wordpress.com/earthquake/haiti-earthquake-disaster/

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