Natural Disaster Database

Background

The Georisk-Project maintains a database for systematically recording natural hazard events. Most of the records in the database have been extracted from media coverage, mainly newspaper articles, but also from online media. In addition data from technical reports and outside data collections are inserted. At the time of writing (July 2009) the database covers roughly 13,000 records describing some 7,100 natural hazard events. The database was designed using a relational database management system (Microsoft Access).