Day_143 : World Disaster Chronology 1996-1997

Date	Place	Disaster Type	Situations
1996.01-	US, East	Cold Wave	Over 200(DM) Snowstorm
1996.02.17	Indonesia, East (Irian Jaya)	Submarine Earthquake	M8.1～8.2, 170(DM) Tsunami to Pulau Biak
1996.04-	Mongolia	Bush Fire	The worst bush fire in Mongolia’s history.
1996.05-	Bangladesh	Tornado	1,000-1,500(DM) One of the worst tornado disaster in the world
1996.05-	Tanzania	Strong Wind	Over 500(DM)
1996.05-	Pakistan	Heat Wave	Over100(D)
1996.06-	China	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 220(DM), Landslide
1996.06-	China, South	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 1,700(D)
1996.07-	China	Typhoon, Flood	Over500(DM)
1996.07-	India	Heavy rain, Flood	Over750(DM)
1996.07-	North Korea	Heavy rain, Flood	DM(several hundred), Estimated large-scale starving caused by two years successive floods.
1996.07-	Nepal	Heavy rain, Flood	Over210(DM)
1996.09-	Japan	Typhoon, Flood	11(D), Injured 70 ,Destroyed 900, Inundated over12,000
1996.11-	India	Cyclone, Flood	Over 2,000(DM)
1996.12-	Malaysia	Typhoon, Flood	200(DM)
1997.01-	Madagascar	Cyclone, Flood	100(DM)
1997.02-	Peru	Heavy rain, Floods, and Landslides	Over380(DM)
1997.02.28	Iran, Northwest	Inland Earthquake	M5.5-6.1, 965-1,100 (DM) *
1997.05.10	Iran, East	Inland Earthquake	M6.8-7.3, 1,600（DM)*
1997.05-	Bangladesh	Typhoon, Flood	Over500(DM)
1997.06-	China, Sichuan	Heavy rain, Flood, and Landslide	140(DM)
1997.07.09	Venezuela	Inland Earthquake	M6.9、Over76(DM)
1997.07-	Germany/Poland, North	Heavy rain, Flood	110(DM) Oder river flooding
1997.08-	Japan	Heavy rain, Flood	5(D),Inundated Over 14,000
1997.08-	China	Typhoon, Flood	140(DM)
1997.08-	India, North	Heavy rain, Flood, and Landslide	130-280(DM)
1997.08-	India	Tidal wave	400(DM)
1997.09-	Japan	Typhoon, Flood	12(D), Destroyed approx.200, Inundated over 16,000
1997.09-	Pakistan	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 140(DM), Lahore
1997.10-	Mexico	Hurricane, Flood	Over 400(DM)
1997.10-	Somalia	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 1,700(D)
1997.11-	Ecuador	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 140(DM)
1997.12-	Peru	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 300(D)
1997.12-	Brazil and others	Forest fire	Amazon rainforest conflagration
1997.12-	Zambia	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 200(DM)
1998.02.04	Afghanistan, Northeast	Inland Earthquake	M5.9-6.1, 2,300(DM)
1998.03-	Pakistan	Heavy rain, Flood	Over300(DM)
1998.03-	India	Tornado	Over 200(DM)
1998.05.31	Afghanistan, Northeast	Inland Earthquake	M6.6-6.9, 4,000-5,000(DM)
1998.05-	India	Heat Wave	Over 3,000(D)
1998.05-	Italy	Heavy rain, Flood	180-300(DM)
1998.06-	India	Typhoon, Flood	1,000(DM)
1998.06-	Nepal	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 110(DM)
1998.06-	China	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 4,200(DM) Yangtze river and other rivers floods, over 200 million (affected)
1998.07-	US, South	Heat Wave	Over 170(DM)
1998.07-	India/Bangladesh	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 3,000(DM) Ganges River flood
1998.07-	Uzbekistan	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 700(DM), a dam was collapsed
1998.07.17	New Guinea, North	Submarine Earthquake	New Guinea Earthquake and Tsunami M7.1 2,800(DM)
1998.08-	South Korea	Heavy rain, Flood	250-330(DM)
1998.08-	Japan	Heavy rain, Flood	25(DM), Destroyed approx.480, Inundation over 13,000
1998.09-	Japan	Typhoon, Flood	18(DM), Injured 570, Destroyed approx.21,000, Inundation over 8,600, Typhoon No.7,8
1998.09-	Japan	Typhoon, Flood	9(D), Destroyed approx.100, Inundation over 17,000, Typhoon No.9
1998.09-	Japan	Typhoon, Flood	14(DM), Injured 60, Destroyed approx.700, Inundation over 12,000, Typhoon No.10
1998.09-	Haiti Dominica	Typhoon, Flood	Over 500(DM), Hurricane George
1998.09-	Mexico	Heavy rain, Flood	Over 1,400(DM)
1998.10-	Nicaragua	Volcano	Over 1,600(DM) Mudslide
1998.11-	Thailand	Typhoon, Flood	100(DM)
1998.11.29	Eastern Indonesia (Serum Sea)	Submarine Earthquake	M7.7-8.3 40(DM) Tsunami