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Top five natural disasters causing mortality between 2000 and 2011
| Disaster | Number of deaths |
|---|---|
| Earthquake | 701 307 |
| Storm | 176 822 |
| Extreme temperature | 148 684 |
| Epidemic | 72 234 |
| Flood | 68 685 |
EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database – www.emdat.net – Université catholique de Louvain – Brussels–Belgium.
