Learning from past disasters

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Learning from past disasters

Learn from past disasters on the PreventionWeb knowledge base. These collections explore the lessons learned from past disasters, what were the risk drivers, impacts and efforts towards building back better.

9 December 2021
The Japan earthquake and tsunami prompted extensive damage, including the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
8 December 2021
In January 2010, a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti, impacting millions of people and generating multiple aftershocks.
8 December 2021
In July 2011, widespread drought in the Horn of Africa instigated a severe food crisis, affecting millions of people.
8 December 2021
Hurricane Florence triggered intense destruction in the American states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, with losses of several billion dollars.
8 December 2021
Hurricane Harvey yielded extensive damage across the Southern United States, especially Texas.
8 December 2021
Hurricane Irma ravaged the Caribbean and the Atlantic United States, resulting in over U.S. $50 billion worth of losses and dozens of deaths.
8 December 2021
Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast of the United States and is widely remembered as one of the country's most consequential disasters.
26 May 2023
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly Dominica, Saint Croix, and Puerto Rico. It is regarded as the worst natural disaster in recorded history to affect those islands.