CRED Crunch Newsletter - Nov 2009

Source: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Date: Nov 2009

This issue of the CRED Crunch newsletter provides statistics on global natural disasters for the first semester (January - June) of 2009.

Although global disaster impact figures in the first half of the year appeared relatively low compared to the 1999-2008 yearly average, many countries, mostly in Asia and South America, suffered major losses.

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