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Land Slide - Data and statistics

A 'pre-designed' summary and profile of disasters reported for a particular hazard including a summary of events from 1980 to September 2008 , as well as the top 10 disasters.

Data related to human and economic losses from disasters that have occurred between 1980 and 2008.

Please see also Land Slide Risk profile

Land Slide disasters from 1980 - 2008

Overview

No of events: 366
No of people killed: 20,008
Average people killed per year: 690
No of people affected: 7,031,523
Average people affected per year: 242,466
Ecomomic Damage (US$ X 1,000): 6,059,838
Ecomomic Damage per year (US$ X 1,000): 208,960

Top 10 Disasters Reported


Affected people

Disaster Date Affected (no. of people)
India 1986 2,500,000
India 1995 1,100,000
Peru 1983 700,000
Afghanistan 2006 300,000
Nepal 2002 265,865
Indonesia 2003 229,548
Philippines 2003 217,988
India 1998 200,000
Bolivia 1994 165,000
Brazil 2000 143,000

Killed people

Disaster Date Killed (no. of people)
Philippines 2006 1,126
Colombia 1987 640
Nepal 2002 472
India 1995 400
Peru 1983 364
Afghanistan 1995 354
Philippines 1985 300
Peru 1997 300
Philippines 2000 287
China P Rep 1983 277

Economic damages

Disaster Date Cost (US$ X 1,000)
Peru 1983 988,800
China P Rep 1998 890,000
Italy 1982 700,000
Italy 1987 625,000
Ecuador 1993 500,000
Soviet Union 1989 423,000
Bolivia 1992 400,000
Switzerland 2000 330,000
Japan 1993 210,000
Switzerland 2002 180,000

Statistics for land-slide


Number of events reported


Number of people affected


Number of people killed


Reported economic damages (US$ in billion)

More information and data on: www.emdat.be/

Source of data: "EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Bel."
Data version: v11.08