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Global Historical Natural Disaster Events (1970–2024)

About this data

Comprehensive dataset of 10,639 natural disaster events worldwide from 1970 to 2024, covering 100 countries across all continents. Includes floods, storms, earthquakes, droughts, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, landslides, extreme temperature events, and epidemics. Each record contains 21 fields: event ID, date range, disaster type and subtype, severity index (1–10), magnitude (for seismic/volcanic events), geographic coordinates, country/continent/subregion, fatalities, injuries, total affected population, displaced persons, economic damage (millions USD), duration, humanitarian response level, and data source attribution. Data synthesized from multiple authoritative sources including EM-DAT, NOAA, USGS, WHO, IFRC, ReliefWeb, and GDACS. Suitable for climate risk analysis, humanitarian planning, insurance modeling, disaster preparedness research, and geospatial visualization.

Schema

Name	Type	Description
event_id	string
year	string
start_date	string
end_date	string
disaster_type	string
disaster_subtype	string
severity_index	string
magnitude_value	string
country	string
continent	string
subregion	string
latitude	string
longitude	string
fatalities	string
injuries	string
total_affected	string
displaced	string
economic_damage_millions_usd	string
duration_days	string
response_level	string
data_source	string

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