'Eight million deaths from natural disasters after 1900 '

- By natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions are approximately eight million people have died since 1900. That has calculated a scientist from the German city of Karlsruhe. The disasters caused more than $ 7 trillion loss converted approximately 6200 billion (6.2 trillion) euro.

Geophysicist James Daniell had the effect of more than 35 000 natural disasters between 1900 and 2015 at each other. The results he presented Monday in Vienna.

The high death toll is partly due to flooding of the Yellow River in China in 1931, leaving 2.5 million people were killed. By the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 killed 230 000 people and Cyclone Nargis in 2008 claimed 140 000 lives. Earthquakes cost in those 115 years to 2.2 million lives.

The greatest economic damage was caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. Who cared for according to Daniell 296 billion damage. Approximately 18 500 people died, 450 000 Japanese were homeless.