Disasters: Man versus Nature - Swivel

Sources: Swiss Re (http://www.swissre.com/)
According to Swiss Re, natural and man-made catastrophes in 2005 caused $230 billion dollars in damage to buildings, infrastructure, vehicles, or losses to directly affected businesses. Hurricane Katrina entailed the highest total damage by far, at 135 billion. The total damage of the Kashmir earthquake is estimated to be 5 billion. Man-made disasters triggered damage totaling 10 billion, the most costly being the terrorist attack in London in July, explosions in oil processing plants in Canada in January and in the US in March, and the riots in France in October and November. This graph shows the number of man-made vs natural disasters since 1970. Data by Emil Valdez.


Man versus Nature - Swivel