The EM-DAT Emergency Events Database Archive

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Catalog
Catholic University of Louvain catalog
Country of origin
Belgium
Updated
2025.07.09 06:07
Created
2025.07.09
Available languages
English
Keywords
Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), Global Disaster Data, Multi-hazard Database, International Disaster Reporting, Natural Hazards, Technological Hazards, Disasters, , Man-made Disasters, Climate-related Disasters, Biological Disasters, Disaster Impact, Disaster Losses, Disaster Health Impact, Disaster Human Impact, Disaster Mortality, Disaster Economic Impact, Disaster Economic Losses, Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Response, Emergency Management, Humanitarian Aid, Epidemiology of Disasters, Disaster Statistics, Disaster Vulnerability, Global Disaster Trends, Geospatial Data, Historical Disasters, Flood, Storm, Drought, Wildfire, Earthquake, Tsunami, Extreme Temperature, Heat Wave, Cold Wave, Landslides, Mass Movement, Volcanic Activity, Epidemic, Disease Outbreak, Industrial Accident, Transport Accident, Technological Accident.
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Official portal for European data link
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Dataset description

Overview The EM-DAT Emergency Events Database Archive, or EM-DAT Archive, preserves official archived versions of the actively maintained EM-DAT database (www.emdat.be) to adhere with FAIR principles and support open and reproducible science while using the EM-DAT data. This archive features a comprehensive dataset with the following specifications: Downloaded from the EM-DAT Public Portal on December 4, 2024, Including global disaster occurrence and impact records spanning 1900-2023, Validated with the EM-TEST testing framework v2024.12.0, Including a PDF archive of the EM-DAT Official Documentation (data and protocol description, known issues, tutorial, and more), Released under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. About the EM-DAT Project EM-DAT is a global disaster database project started in 1988 with the initial support of the World Health Organization and the Belgian government. Since 1999, EM-DAT has been supported by the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). EM-DAT collects data on disaster occurrences in countries and their human and economic impact from 1900 onwards.
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