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Table 1 Economic losses caused by natural disasters in El Salvador

From: Tools to operate and manage early warning systems for natural hazards monitoring in El Salvador

Disaster

Date

Damage (000 US$)

Earthquake (seismic activity)

10/10/1986

1 500 000

Earthquake (seismic activity)

13/01/2001

1 500 000

Flood

09/2011

1 000 000

Storm

07/11/2009

939 000

Storm

25/10/1998

388 100

Storm

01/10/2005

355 700

Earthquake (seismic activity)

13/02/2001

348 500

Flood

17/09/1982

280 000

Drought

05/1998

170 000

Earthquake (seismic activity)

03/05/1965

35 000

  1. Source: “EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. http://www.emdat.be/database Université Catholique de Louvain Brussels Belgium”. Created on: Oct-23-2014. Data version: v12.07