Country Profile for Natural Disasters

The information on natural disasters presented here is taken from EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. In order for a disaster to be entered into the database at least one of the following criteria has to be fulfilled:

• 10 or more people reported killed
• 100 people reported affected
• a call for international assistance
• declaration of a state of emergency

Data on natural disasters is presented in three forms:
Top 10	Summarized table	Summarized table

Top 10 Natural Disasters in Malaysia
sorted by numbers of people killed and affected

Disaster Date Killed Wind Storm 26-Dec- 270 Epidemic 263 Epidemic Sep- 105 Slides 11-Dec- 72 Flood 26-Dec- 61 Flood Jan- 50 Slides 30-Aug- 50 Flood 26-Dec- 30 Flood 12-Nov- 27 Wind Storm 7-Jan- 21

Disaster Date Affected Flood 3-Dec- 300,000 Flood 26-Dec- 243,000 Flood Jan- 140,000 Flood 12-Nov- 60,000 Flood 28-Nov- 25,000 Flood 26-Dec- 25,000 Flood Dec- 15,000 Flood 3-Oct- 13,800 Wind Storm 7-Jan- 10,000 Flood 19-Aug- 10,000

Created on: May-5-. - Data version: v04.04 Source:"EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, www.em-dat.net - Université catholique de Louvain - Brussels - Belgium" For some natural disasters (particularly floods and droughts) there is no exact day or month for the event, and for other disasters (particularly pre-) the available record of the disaster does not provide an exact day or month.

Summarized Table of Natural Disasters in Malaysia from to

# of Events Killed Injured Homeless Affected Total Affected DamageUS (000's) Drought 1 0 0 0 5,000 5,000 0 ave. per event   0 0 0 5,000 5,000 0                 Epidemic 9 393 0 0 5,989 5,989 0 ave. per event   44 0 0 665 665 0                 Flood 22 226 0 20,000 860,120 880,120 78,705 ave. per event   10 0 909 39,096 40,006 3,578                 Slides 4 152 35 250 0 285 0 ave. per event   38 9 63 0 71 0                 Wild Fires 1 0 0 3,000 0 3,000 0 ave. per event   0 0 3,000 0 3,000 0                 Wind Storm 4 293 0 3,000 11,805 14,805 0 ave. per event   73 0 750 2,951 3,701 0                 Created on: May-5-. - Data version: v04.04 Source:"EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, www.em-dat.net - Université catholique de Louvain - Brussels - Belgium"

*Events recorded in the CRED EM-DAT. First Event: Dec/, Last Entry: Mar/.

*Epidemics inluded: Diarrhoeal/Enteric(Cholera), Diarrhoeal/Enteric(Typhoid), Arbovirus(Dengue fever), Meningitis(Coxsackievirus), Arbovirus(Encephalitis), Unknown, Unknown(Hand foot and mouth disease), Respiratory(Acute respiratory syndrome (SARS))

Tragic Disasters in Malaysia Tragic Date Place Death / Injured Collapse of  Penang Ferry Terminal bridge - Jeti Pengkalan Sultan Abdul Halim 31.07. (Sunday) Butterworth, Pulau Pinang 32 / < Sungai Buloh fireworks factory explosion 07.05. (Tuesday) Sungai Buluh, Selangor 22 / < 103 Choon Hong III Explosion 20.06. (Saturday) Port Kelang, Selangor 10 / -- Collapse of Highland Towers 11.12. (Tuesday) Hulu Kelang, Selangor 48 / -- Karak Highway landslide 20 tourists were killed and 22 injured when a massive landslide during heavy rains buried vehicles travelling on a different road leading to the resort 30.06. (Friday) KM 34 Jalan Susur Genting Highland 22 / < 22 Karak Highway accident Seventeen people were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine at a mountain resort   15.07. (Monday) KM 1.5 Jalan Genting Highland 17 / -- Pos Dipang Mudslide The aborigine settlement of Pos Dipang near the town of Kampar in northern Perak state lies devastated after a mudslide set off by heavy rain and floods   29.08. (Thursday) Kampar, Perak 44 / -- Typhoon, floods hit west coast of Sabah 26.12. (Thursday) Sabah 230 / --

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