Table 1. Main categories of natural disasters and findings about crime pattern consequences.

Group	Definition	Type	Crime Went Up	Crime Went Down
Geophysical	Events originating from solid earth	Earthquake, Volcano, Mass Movement (dry)	[20]–Murder	[25]–All crime
			[21]–DV1	[21]–All crime
			[22]–DV	[22]–All crime
			[23]–DV	[23]–All crime
			[24]–Child Abuse	[26]–Property crime
Meteorological	Events caused by short‐lived/small to meso-scale atmospheric processes (in the spectrum from minutes to days)	Storm (hurricane, typhoons)	[24]–Child Abuse	[28]–All crime
			[27]–Residential and commercial burglary	[29]–All crime
Hydrological	Events caused by deviations in the normal water cycle and/or overflow of bodies of water caused by wind set‐up	Flood, Mass Movement (wet)	[30]–Contractor fraud	[31]–All crime
				[32]–All crime
Climatological	Events caused by long‐lived/meso- to macro-scale processes (in the spectrum from intra‐seasonal to multi‐decadal climate variability)	Extreme Temperature, Drought, Wildfire	[33]–DV and dowry murder	[33]–All crime
Biological	Disaster caused by the exposure of living organisms to germs and toxic substances	Epidemic, Insect Infestation, Animal Stampede	[34]–Violent and property crime; stranger homicides
Extra-terrestrial	Events caused by extra-terrestrial bodies or phenomena	Meteorites, Asteroids, Solar Flares

¹ DV is the abbreviation for domestic violence.