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UNESCO: Indian Ocean tsunami exercise billed a success

13 Oct 2011, UNESCO

'Despite these occasional problems, Exercise IOWave11 has achieved its goal of evaluating the state of readiness of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in responding to a potentially destructive tsunami,' said Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC...


Human Exposure
Hazard type Population
exposed
Percentage of population
Cyclone 93,437
Drought
Flood
Landslide 13,500
 
Earthquake
Tsunami
Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report
Top 5 Natural Disaster reported
Disaster Date Affected (no. of people)
Epidemic 2005 157,000
Storm 1980 7,000
Storm 1989 6,261
Storm 1987 4,000
Storm 2002 3,100
Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
Data version: v11.08   *: Including tsunami
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