Among the five natural disasters, meteorological hydrological disaster caused the heaviest economic losses and the widest influence; geologic earthquake disaster caused the highest number of casualties and the most serious social terrorism; ocean disaster caused the fastest growing of economic losses; biohazard caused the increasing impact to agriculture; ecological environment disaster gained growing concern.
Among the five natural disasters, flooding, drought, typhoon and earthquake always caused catastrophe. These are the most serious natural disasters in our country.
All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) have been influenced by various natural disasters in different degrees. There are more than 80% industries and agriculture, 70% cities and 50% population in the areas with sever disasters such as meteorological, geological, earthquake and marine disasters.
Our country is vast and the natural conditions and development are very different from different places, so the dangerous and dangerous distribution of the hazard is unbalanced. According to the comprehensive statistics, there are many kinds of natural disasters in southeast China.
The information is provided from Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service.
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