2011 disasters in numbers

  Available online: http://www.unisdr.org/files/24692_2011disasterstats.pdf

For two consecutive years the long-term disasters trend has been bucked by major earthquakes which claimed thousands of lives and affected millions in both 2010 and 2011, according to new statistics published today by CRED and the UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR.

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