Top 10 Natural Disasters

- glaring 1st -Criteria for Ranking 306 termination (the most deadly temblor in year 2012) -Date August 11, 2012 -Location East Azerbaijan Province, Iran -Type Twin earthquakes (Magnitude 6. 3 and 6. 4) -Description The earthquake resulted in an estimated 306 deaths, over 5000 injured, most of houses destroyed. -Sources of data http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Earthquakes_in_2012cite_note-98 and http//earthquake. usgs. gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb000bupa. phpdetails -Rank 2nd -Criteria for Ranking 30 killed, 109 missing Date June 1, 2012 -Location Bugimwera village, Uganda -Type Landslide -Description The landslide resulted in 30 deaths and more(prenominal) than 100 were still missing. There were astir(predicate) 400,000 people required humanitarian help. A great number of houses were destroyed and over 3000 need to be locate -Sources of information http//www. huffingtonpost. com/2012/06/26/mount-elgon-landslide-2012-missing-uganda_n_1626893. html and http//www. rnw. nl/ africa/article/hundreds-homeless-many-watchful-after-uganda-mudslide Rank 3rd -Criteria for Ranking 113 death -Date February 6, 2012 -Location Visayas, Philippines (near island of Negros, and Cebu) -Type Earthquake (Magnitude 6. 7) -Description The earthquake resulted in an estimated 113 deaths, about 112 injured about 15,000 buildings and 17 bridges were destroyed. -Sources of information http//earthquake. usgs. gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2012/usb0007wgq/summary and http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Earthquakes_in_2012September -Rank 4th -Criteria for Ranking 81 death Date September 7, 2012 -Location Yiliang, Zhaotong, Yunnan Province, China -Type Earthquake (Magnitude 5. 6) -Description The earthquake resulted in an estimated 81 deaths, about 821 injured more than 6600 houses were flattened and thousands were damaged about $552 million lost in the earthquake. -Sources of information http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/2012_Yunnan_earthquakes -Rank 5th -Criteria for Ranking 77 death -Date J une 29, 2012 -Location Brahmaputra River, call forth of Assam, northeastern India -Type Flood Description 77 were killed in the flood, over 2 million people and 2084 villages were affected. -Sources of information http//india. blogs. nytimes. com/2012/09/24/floods-and-landslides-kill-dozens-in-north-east-india/ and http//www. nytimes. com/2012/06/30/world/asia/india-floods-swamp-more-than-2000-villages. html -Rank sixth -Criteria for Ranking 75 death -Date June 11, 2012 -Location Baghlan Province, Afghanistan -Type Earthquakes (Magnitude 5. 4 and 5. 7) -Description The earthquake resulted in an estimated 75 deaths, about 13 injured.The earthquake causes mountains in the Hindu Kush region to break off. Sayi Hazara was all destroyed that only one home survived. -Sources of information http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/June_2012_Afghanistan_earthquakes -Rank 7th -Criteria for Ranking 27 death -Date May 20, 2012 -Location Emilia-Romagna, Italy -Type Earthquakes (Magnitude 6. 1 and 5. 8) - Description The earthquake resulted in an estimated 27 deaths, about 400 injured (50 in the first earthquake and 350 in the second).It also caused more than 45,000 people lost their home. -Sources of information http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/2012_Northern_Italy_earthquakes -Rank 8th -Criteria for Ranking 20 death -Date September 23, 2012 -Location Northeastern states of Sikkim and Assam, India -Type Floods and landslides -Description 20 people died, 1. 3 million of people were affected by flood, over 200,000 of people lost their houses. -Sources of information http//india. blogs. nytimes. com/2012/09/24/floods-and-landslides-kill-dozens-in-north-east-india/ Rank 9th -Criteria for Ranking 17 death -Date November 4, 2012 -Location Andhra Pradesh, India -Type Flood -Description The flood resulted in 17 deaths and destroyed more than 1246 houses. Crops were destroyed over 243,634 hectares. Roads were also heavily damaged. -Sources of information http//www. disaster-report. com/2012/11/r ecent-natural-disasters-list-november-4. html -Rank 10th -Criteria for Ranking 8 death -Date February 29, 2012 -Location Harrisburg, Illinois, the United States -Type Tornado (EF-4)