Hurricane Sandy will rank high among disasters in terms of economic impact but will not be at the top of the list, said Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics.
The book presented Spain's 20th-century disasters in terms of the historical failures of the middle classes to overcome the resistance of a recalcitrant landed oligarchy to the political, economic and intellectual modernisation of the country.
Scientists would go on to note that the five-year drought – the worst on record in the last century – ranked among the country's worst natural disasters in terms of people affected.
Effects of the aforementioned propagation impairments to mission-critical signals in industrial settings can result in costly disasters in terms of money, manpower, time, and even human lives.
The number and seriousness of disasters in terms of people affected and property lost have been on the increase around the world since the 1960s when reliable data started to be recorded (DFID 2006).
In average, some 70 flood events occur in every monsoon in Nepal (Gautam 2015a) so earthquakes and floods are more highlighted disasters in terms of loss of life and impact upon physical infrastructures and properties.
