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Table 9.24 Natural disaster occurrence and impacts by the regions and subgroups (Guha-Sapir et al. 2013)
Region
Natural disaster subgroup
Climatological
Geophysical
Hydrological
Meteorological
Total
2012
M
2012
M
2012
M
2012
M
2012
M
Africa
16
14
0
3
30
46
11
9
57
72
Americas
12
14
6
7
26
41
35
39
79
95
Asia
12
12
23
22
71
82
39
39
145
156
Europe
45
17
3
2
16
23
1
14
65
56
Oceania
0
1
0
2
7
5
4
7
11
16
Global
85
59
32
36
150
197
90
102
357
394
Notation M is the average 2002
−
2011
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