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Fig. 7.3 Dynamics of total amount of natural catastrophes and victims beginning from 1990
(Guha-Sapir et al. 2013)

Fig. 7.4 Statistics of large natural catastrophes related with climatic processes

hurricanes. For example, intense tropical hurricane which was in June 1502 between
Puerto Rico and Hispanola, as described by Christopher Columbus, destroyed 21
ships and killed about 500 seamen. The presence of such fragmentary data about
tropical hurricanes is a subject for discussion of many experts in the

field of mete-
orology about the possibility to reconstruct the correlation between climate change
and intensity of hurricanes. Such efforts are made, for instance, by studing sediments
in the USA coastal waters which were delivered during the past 1,000 years by
hurricanes (Liu and Fearn 1993; Plumlee et al. 2006).