"The Maruti was a disaster," records an account of an early test drive.
From scientific researches, we definitely see the increasing trend of disasters recorded each year since 1960s.
For Arbus, the categorically horrible resonated in ways that accidental public atrocities did not; she was not drawn to the gangland shootings, suicides, and disasters recorded by Weegee's glib camera.
Analysis by Oxfam International of the 6,500 climate-related disasters recorded since 1980 show that the numbers of people affected by extreme weather events, many of which are linked to climate change, has doubled in just 30 years and is expected to increase a further 54% to more than 375 million people a year on average by 2015.
From 2000 to 2013, the Brussels-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters recorded an average of 341 weather-related disasters per year, up 44percentt from the average between 1994 and 2000.
Of >600 geophysical disasters recorded, we found only 3 reported outbreaks related to these disasters: 1 of measles after the eruption of Pinatubo in Philippines, 1 of coccidioidomycosis after an earthquake in California, and 1 of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Costa Rica related to an earthquake and heavy rainfall.
They amassed their figures for urban populations from a plethora of sources, including censuses, traveller's accounts, tax rolls, gazetteers, disaster records, public bath rolls and archaeological records.
Chandler utilized a wide range of sources to develop his volume: censuses, scholarly reports, travelers' diaries, encyclopedias, gazetteers, travel guides, librarians, scholars, tax documents, street density, public bath counts, military records, disaster records of lives lost, and religious histories of cities2.
The database includes environmental, hazard, and exposure data and historical disaster records.
