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> Date: 12/22/99 1:37:35 PM Central Standard Time
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> http://news.excite.com/news/r/991221/13/life-disasters
>
> World suffers new disaster record in 1999-insurer
>
> Reuters News Service
> Updated 1:04 PM ET December 21, 1999
>
> By David Crossland
>
> FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Nature plagued the world with a record number of
> disasters in 1999 but the death toll fell far short of the worst single
> catastrophe of the last 1,000 years, a Chinese flood that killed 900,000 in
> 1887.
>
> Munich Re, one of the world's largest reinsurers, said that about 70,000
> people were killed in well over 700 disasters this year, including up to
> 30,000 who died in floods and mudslides in Venezuela this week.
>
> Climatic changes such as global warming were partly to blame, but it was
> impossible to say to what extent, Munich Re said.
>
> "We have a feeling that climate changes will play an increasing role in the
> future," said Gerhard Berz, head of a Munich Re research team that has been
> collecting worldwide data on disasters for the last 25 years.
>
> Economic losses resulting from catastrophes surged to $535 billion per
> decade in the 1990s from $38 billion in the 1950s in price-adjusted terms,
> Munich Re said.
>
> Insurance losses have risen at almost twice that rate as worldwide
insurance
> cover has increased, Munich Re said.
>
> Alongside environment changes, urban growth and growing population density
> are causing the increase in catastrophe losses. A violent storm in a desert
> is a natural spectacle but it becomes a disaster if it strikes a town.
>
> MAN A BIGGER KILLER THAN NATURE
>
> More than 15 million people died in over 100,000 natural catastrophes over
> the last thousand years, with some 3.5 million deaths this century alone,
> Munich Re said.
>
> The total amounts to less than half the fatalities of World War II but
> excludes the unquantifiable millions who died of drought and famine.
>
> Munich Re has written a review of the millennium based on what it says is a
> unique archive of data used by scientists, engineers and authorities all
> over the world.
>
> But contrary to the impression given by the record number of disasters and
> the thousands of deaths this year, death tolls seem to be declining, Munich
> Re said. Improved early warning systems and protection systems are helping.
>
> Cyclones claimed well over one million lives in India and Bangladesh in the
> 18th and 19th centuries, and hundreds of thousands drowned in freak North
> Sea storms in the late Middle Ages.
>
> This century's worst disaster was an earthquake in July 1976 that killed
> 290,000 people in the Tangshan region of north-east China. Economic losses
> at $5.6 billion were uninsured.
>
> Earthquakes are the biggest killers, accounting for 47 percent of deaths.
> Windstorms claim 45 percent, followed by floods with seven percent.
>
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