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World: Global Catastrophe Recap, March 2019

World Global Catastrophe Recap March
World: Global Catastrophe Recap, March 2019

2019-04-18 00:00:00 - Source: Relief Web

Source: Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre

Country: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, Syrian Arab Republic, United States of America, World, Zimbabwe

Executive Summary

  • Extensive U.S. flooding leads to multi-billion-dollar impact in the Missouri & Mississippi River Basins

  • Cyclone Idai leaves nearly 1,100 people dead & causes a humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa

  • Windstorm Eberhard poised to become the costliest event of the 2018/19 season in Europe

8.0 billion Anticipated global cost of flooding events in March 2019 in USD

115 mph Estimated maximum wind speed (1-minute) of Cyclone Idai prior to Mozambique landfall

2.0 inch Hail size in Florida’s Brevard County on March 27; only the 7th time since 1950

1.0 million Estimated number of power outages due to Windstorm Eberhard in Europe





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