Year 2002 NATURAL DISASTERS

DECEMBER 2002:

27th - SUMATRA - HEAVY RAINS CAUSED LANDSLIDE - 11 DEAD - one missing.

24th - CHINA - TORNADO - 26 DEAD - 100 injured.

24th - SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL U.S. - WINTER STORM - 15 DEAD.

21st - BRAZIL - MUDSLIDES CAUSED BY HEAVY RAIN - 13 DEAD - more victims presumed buried.

20th - EGYPT - HEAVY RAINS - 14 DEAD - 70 hurt in road accidents.

18th - U.S. WEST COAST - 5 DAY STORM, MUDSLIDES - 13 DEAD.

14th - AFGHANISTAN - SEVERE COLD - 41 CHILDREN DEAD.

11th - JAVA, INDONESIA - MUDSLIDE - 28 DEAD - 30 missing.

8th - BRAZIL - MUDSLIDES - 34 DEAD.

5th - EASTERN U.S. - ICE AND SNOWSTORMS - 22 DEAD.


NOVEMBER 2002:

25th - ZIMBABWE - LIGHTNING - 10 DEAD - 61 burned.

25th - MOROCCO - TORRENTIAL RAIN & FLASH FLOODS - 37 DEAD.


21st - PAKISTAN - 5.8 EARTHQUAKE - 25 DEAD.

13th - BANGLADESH - CYCLONE - 200 missing and feared dead.

13th - INDIA - CYCLONE - 36 DEAD - 400 missing.

10th - ALABAMA,TENNESSEE, OHIO - LINE OF TORNADOES - 36 DEAD - 100 injured - dozens of homes destroyed.


3rd - PAKISTAN - 4.5 EARTHQUAKE - 17 DEAD - 65 injured and four villages extensively damaged by the quake and subsequent mudslides.


2nd - INDONESIA - 7.5 EARTHQUAKE - 2 DEAD - many injured.


OCTOBER 2002:


31st - ITALY - 5.4 EARTHQUAKE - 29 DEAD - most children.

27th - NORTHWESTERN EUROPE - POWERFUL WINDSTORM - 24 DEAD - Falling trees killed six people in Britain, six people died in the Netherlands, five died in Germany, four in northern France, two in Belgium and one in Switzerland.

3rd - CARIBBEAN - HURRICANE LILI - 12 DEAD.

2nd - SYRIA - MOUTAIN HOMES COLLAPSED WHEN OLD CAVES BENEATH THEM GAVE WAY - 31 DEAD.


SEPTEMBER 2002:

27th - SUDAN - VIOLENT STORM - 33 DEAD.

21st - RUSSIA - AVALANCHE CAUSED BY GLACIER COLLAPSE - 150 DEAD.

13th - GUATEMALA - LANDSLIDE - 31 DEAD - 2 missing.

9th - FRANCE - FLOODING - 26 DEAD - dozens missing.

8th - CHINA - TYPHOON SINLAKU - 26 DEAD.

3rd - INDIA - MONSOON FLOODING - 16 DEAD.


AUGUST 2002:

31st - VIETNAM - FLOODING - 184 DEAD.

31st - SOUTH KOREA - TYPHOON RUSA - 113 DEAD - 71 missing.

20th - NEPAL - LANDSLIDE FROM MONSOON RAINS - 65 DEAD.

15th - S.E. ASIA - CONTINUED FLOODING - 935 NOW DEAD.

15th - MEXICO - TWO DAMS BURST FROM HEAVY RAIN - 11 DEAD - 10 missing.

14th - CHINA - FLOODING AND LANDSLIDE - 51 DEAD - 41 missing - 10 villages hit by a wall of mud and rock.

13th - CHINA - SUMMER STORMS AND FLOODING - 800 DEAD.

13th - IRAN - FLASH FLOODS - 35 DEAD.

11th - INDIA - MONSOON RAINS AND LANDSLIDES - 43 DEAD.

10th - RUSSIA - SECOND MAJOR FLOOD THIS SUMMER - 59 DEAD.

9th - SOUTH KOREA - FLOODING - 14 DEAD - 40% of the annual rainfall has been received in just 7 days.

9th - CHINA - TORRENTIAL RAINS, LANDSLIDES, FLOODING - 70 DEAD.

8th - EUROPE - SOME OF THE WORST FLOODING SINCE 1896 - 50 DEAD.


JULY 2002:

24th - SOUTHERN ASIA - HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING - 388 DEAD - 7 million displaced from their homes.

24th - NEPAL - LANDSLIDES - 200 DEAD this week - 30 missing.

21st - VENEZUELA - HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING - 5 DEAD - 30,000 homeless.

20th - CHINA - HAIL AND WINDSTORM - 16 DEAD - 200 injured.

16th -MICRONESIA, THE PHILIPPINES, CHINA, THE KOREAN PENINSULA - 4 TYPHOONS ( Rammasun, Chata'an, Nakri and Halong) - 100 DEAD in the past two weeks.

16th - ECUADOR - LANDSLIDE - DOZENS BURIED IN VEHICLES.

15th - NEPAL - LANDSLIDE - 50 DEAD.

10th - GERMANY - VIOLENT STORM - 7 DEAD.

7th - INDIA AND BANGLADESH - HEAVY RAINS, FLOODING, MUDSLIDES - 38 DEAD.

6th - PHILIPPINES - HEAVY RAINS, LANDSLIDES, FLOODING - 29 DEAD.

5th - KOREA - TYPHOON RAMMASUN - 4 DEAD.

3rd - TEXAS - FLOODING - 8 DEAD.

3rd - MICRONESIA - TYPHOON CHATA'AN CAUSED LANDSLIDES ON MANY ISLANDS - 46 DEAD - more missing.


JUNE 2002:

26th - PERU - AVALANCHE - 3 DEAD.


22nd - IRAN - 6.5 EARTHQUAKE - 245 DEAD.

21st - RUSSIA - HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING - 109 DEAD.

11th - CHINA - WEEK OF TORRENTIAL RAINS AND FLOODING - 543 DEAD.

7th - FRANCE - HEAVY RAINS AND MUDSLIDES - 1 DEAD.

4th - SYRIA - DAM COLLAPSE - 10 DEAD - an entire village of 450 is missing.

3rd - CHILE - FLOODS - 11 DEAD - their worst storms in 100 years.


MAY 2002:

31st - HONDURAS - WEEK OF TORRENTIAL RAINS - 3 DEAD - 400 injured.

27th - JAMACIA - TORRENTIAL RAINS WITH FLOODING - 5 DEAD.

27th - HAITI - TORRENTIAL RAINS WITH FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES - 10 DEAD.

19th - INDIA - 2-WEEK HEATWAVE - 1030 DEAD.

15th - KENYA - HEAVY RAINS AND LANDSLIDES - 53 DEAD - 150,000 displaced.

13th - MADAGASCAR - STORM - 13 DEAD.

9th - ILLINOIS - TORNADO - 2 DEAD - dozen injured.

4th - BANGLADESH - TROPICAL STORM SINKS FERRY - 300 + DEAD.

3rd - BANGLADESH - WEEK OF TROPICAL STORMS AND LIGHTNING - 59 DEAD.


APRIL 2002:

29th - MARYLAND TO MISSOURI - TORNADOES - 6 DEAD.

28th - KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, ILLINOIS - HIGHWINDS AND TORNADOES - 3 DEAD.


25th - TBILISI, GEORGIA - 6.0 EARTHQUAKE - 6 DEAD.


25th - IRAN - EARTHQUAKES - 1 DEAD.

25th - AFGHANISTAN - HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING - 2 DEAD - many missing.


24th - BALKANS - 5.7 EARTHQUAKE - 1 DEAD - 60 injured - widespread damage to homes.


15th - AFGHANISTAN - 5.3 EARTHQUAKE - 2 DEAD - several injured.

14th - CANADA - AVALANCHE - 2 SNOWBOARDERS KILLED.


12th - AFGHANISTAN - 5.9 EARTHQUAKE - 59 DEAD - 200 injured.

9th - ECUADOR - HEAVY RAINS AND LANDSLIDES - 23 DEAD - thousands homeless.

3rd - INDIA - SEVERE CYCLONE - 9 DEAD - 50 injured - 500 homes flattened.

3rd - PAKISTAN - HEAVY RAINS - 8 DEAD - a wall at a school collapsed.

2nd - PAPUA NEW GUINEA - LANDSLIDE - 8 DEAD - 22 missing.

1st - CANARY ISLANDS - TORRENTIAL RAINS CAUSED FLOODING - 6 DEAD.


MARCH 2002:


31st - TAIWAN - 7.1 EARTHQUAKE - 5 DEAD - hundreds injured and more than 350 aftershocks followed by the next day.


26th - AFGHANISTAN & NORTHERN PAKISTAN - 5.9 EARTHQUAKE - 1000+ DEAD - 3,000 injured - villages still shaking from frequent aftershocks - 7 have been large.

20th - ECUADOR - HEAVY RAINS AND LANDSLIDES OVER TWO WEEKS - 12 DEAD.

18th - TENNESSEE - FLASH FLOODS - 4 DEAD.

15th - GEORGIA - HEAVY FOG - 4 DEAD - 125 car highway pile-up that left a half-mile trail of mangled cars and trucks. Thirty-nine people were reported injured.

12th - ECUADOR - HEAVY RAINS OVER TWO WEEKS - 15 DEAD.


6th - PHILIPPINES - 6.8 EARTHQUAKE - 15 DEAD.


3rd - AFGHANISTAN - 7.2 EARTHQUAKE - AT LEAST 100 DEAD IN LANDSLIDE.


FEBRUARY 2002:

26th - GERMANY - VIOLENT STORMS - 3 DEAD.

26th - BRAZIL - DENGUE EPIDEMIC - 18 DEAD - thousands more sick.

19th - BOLIVIA - FLASH FLOODING & MASSIVE HAILSTORM - 69 DEAD - the most destructive thunderstorm in La Paz's history.

10th - CANADA - 2 AVALANCHES - 3 DEAD.

8th - CONGO - WORST STORMS IN A DECADE - 46 DEAD.

5th - AFGHANISTAN - AVALANCHE - 20 feared DEAD.


3rd - TURKEY - 6.0 EARTHQUAKE - 43 DEAD.

2nd - PLAINS AND GREAT LAKES AREA OF U.S. - ICE-GLAZED ROADS AND HEAVY SNOW - 14 DEAD.

1ST - NORTHERN EUROPE - HURRICANE FORCE WINDS - 18 DEAD.



January 2002:

29th - INDONESIA - LANDSLIDE CAUSED BY HEAVY RAIN - 125 DEAD.

28th - MALAYSIA - LANDSLIDE FROM 2 DAYS OF TROPICAL RAINS - 10 DEAD.

20th - RUSSIA - HYPOTHERMIA - 314 DEAD this winter. Continued to claim lives in Moscow despite the warmer weather, with five people freezing to death last weekend.


21st - TURKEY - MODERATE 4.7 EARTHQUAKE - 1 DEAD - A construction worker was killed when the earthquake tossed him off a scaffolding.

21st - CONGO - NYIRAGONGO VOLCANO ERUPTION - 45 DEAD - more feared dead - 500,000 displaced.

7th - EASTERN U.S. - FOOT OF SNOW - 7 DEAD.

5th - SOUTHERN EUROPE - FREAK WINTER STORMS - 9 DEAD.

3rd - U.S. SOUTHWEST - SNOWSTORM - 8 DEAD.