Country Profile - Natural Disasters

Cambodia

The information on natural disasters presented here is taken from EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. In order for a disaster to be entered into the database at least one of the following criteria has to be fulfilled:

 10 or more people reported killed  100 people reported affected  a call for international assistance  declaration of a state of emergency

Data on natural disasters are presented in three forms:

 Top 10  Summarized table  Raw data

Top 10 Natural Disasters - number killed:

Disaster type Date No Killed

Flood 31-Jul-1994 506

Flood 11-Jul-2000 347

Epidemic Jul-2007 182

Flood 22-Aug-1991 100

Flood 30-Sep-1996 59

Epidemic 16-Apr-1999 56

Flood 15-Aug-2001 56

Epidemic Jun-1992 50 Flood 18-Aug-2002 29

Flood 8-Sep-2005 16

Top 10 Natural Disasters - number affected:

Disaster type Date No Affected

Drought Jun-1994 5,000,000

Flood 11-Jul-2000 3,448,053

Flood 15-Aug-2001 1,669,182

Flood 18-Aug-2002 1,470,000

Flood 30-Sep-1996 1,310,000

Flood 22-Aug-1991 900,000

Drought Jan-2002 650,000

Drought Apr-2005 600,000

Flood 2-Aug-1999 535,904

Epidemic Mar-1992 380,000

Top 10 Natural Disasters - economic damage:

Disaster type Date Damage US* (000's)

Flood 11-Jul-2000 160,000

Drought Jun-1994 100,000

Drought Jan-2002 38,000 Flood 15-Aug-2001 15,000

Flood 30-Sep-1996 3,542

Flood 18-Aug-2002 100

Flood 22-Aug-1991 0

Epidemic Mar-1992 0

Epidemic Jun-1992 0

Flood 31-Jul-1994 0

Created on Nov-23-2007. - Data version v03.07 Please note that the CRED/EM-DAT team is currently working on enhancing the economic damage figures. Therefore, we suggest that these figures are treated with caution. Visit our website regularly for updated information.

Source:"EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, www.em-dat.net - Université catholique de Louvain - Brussels - Belgium"

For some natural disasters (particularly floods and droughts)there is no exact day or month for the event, and for other disasters (particularly pre-1974) the available record of the disaster does not provide an exact day or month.

Summarized Table of Natural Disasters in Cambodia from 1987 to 2007

# of Killed Injured Homeless Affected Total Damage US$ Events Affected (000's)

Drought 5 0 0 0 6,550,000 6,550,000 138,000

avg per event 0 0 0 1,310,000 1,310,000 27,600

Epidemic 7 310 0 0 413,343 413,343 0

avg per event 44 0 0 59,049 59,049 0

Flood 12 1,125 53 285,805 9,238,756 9,524,614 178,642

avg per event 94 4 23,817 769,896 793,718 14,887

Created on Nov-23-2007. - Data version v03.07

*Events recorded in the CRED EM-DAT. First Event: /1987, Last Entry: Jul/2007. *Epidemics include: Malaria, Diarrhoeal/Enteric(Cholera), Arbovirus(Dengue fever), Respiratory(Avion Influenza H5N1), Arbovirus(Dengue)

The information on natural disasters presented here is taken from EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. In order for a disaster to be entered into the database at least one of the following criteria has to be fulfilled:

 10 or more people reported killed  100 people reported affected  a call for international assistance  declaration of a state of emergency

Data on technological disasters are presented in three forms:

 Top 10  Summarized table  Raw data

Top 10 Technological Disasters - number killed:

Disaster type Date No Killed

Misc Accident 11-Feb-1974 130

Transport Accident 3-Sep-1997 64

Transport Accident 14-Feb-1994 31

Transport Accident 27-Aug-1996 24

Transport Accident 25-Jun-2007 21

Misc Accident 13-Nov-2005 13

Top 10 Technological Disasters - number affected:

Disaster type Date No Affected Misc Accident 26-Nov-2001 20,000

Misc Accident 11-Feb-1974 10,164

Transport Accident 14-Feb-1994 0

Transport Accident 27-Aug-1996 0

Transport Accident 3-Sep-1997 0

Transport Accident 25-Jun-2007 0

For some technological disasters there is no exact day or month for the event, and for other disasters (particularly pre-1974) the available record of the disaster does not provide an exact day or month.

Summarized Table of Technological Disasters in Cambodia from 1974 to 2007

# of Killed Injured Homeless Affected Total Damage US$ Events Affected (000's)

Misc Accident 3 143 164 20,000 10,000 30,164 600

avg per event 48 55 6,667 3,333 10,055 200

Transport Accident 4 140 0 0 0 0 0

avg per event 35 0 0 0 0 0

*Events recorded in the CRED EM-DAT. First Event: Feb/1974, Last Entry: Jun/2007.