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| Recent Disasters
UNEP/DTIE is not responsible for the accuracy of the information below, these accidents have been collected and compiled on the news bulletins available on the Internet. For more information on these accidents please link to the origin news site on the Location column. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list, it is only a compilation of relevant recent accidents. If you know of any recent accident (from June 2001 on) that is not on the list, please submit it to us under the reference of Recent Disasters, on the Contact button on the down right side of this page.
On 23 June 2001 a strong earthquake with the magnitude
of 8.1 on the Richter scale, struck Arequipa, the second biggest
Peruvian city, at 15:33 (local time). The earthquake epicenter was
about 180 km west of the coastal city of Arequipa on the Pacific
Ocean. Arequipa is situated about 750 km south of Lima, and the
earthquake could be felt as far away as Chile and Bolivia. 102 people
were reported to be dead, 1,348 injured and 46,470 left homeless.
Thirty-nine of the victims died in a tidal wave triggered by the
massive quake. Fatalities and injuries were reported up to 30km
far from the epicenter. Many surrounding areas have lost power,
communications and water supply. On January 26, 2001, the state of Gujarat was devastated by the worst earthquake in India's history, measuring 7.9 in the Richter scale. The dead toll was up to 40.000 people killed and hundreds of thousands injured. The epicenter was located in the northern part of the province. Gujarat - the second most industrialised state in the country - is home to many refineries and petrochemical plants, it has India's busiest port, Kandla, and many steel and textile mills. Officials say the diamond, pharmaceuticals and textile industries are likely to be worst-hit by the massive disruption to powerlines, transport and telecommunications. Most large industrial facilities withstood
the earthquake - but cannot operate and are estimated to be losing
$200m a day. On 11 July 2000 strong rains caused the collapse of the enormous garbage heap in northern Manila where hundreds of scavengers had built their houses. The slide and subsequent fire claimed the lives of at least 193 people, with hundreds more still missing. It is feared that runoff from the dump has contaminated the nearby La Mesa reservoir, the main source of drinking water for Manila's 10 million residents. This disaster highlights the city's inadequate solid waste management program that allows open landfills to become hills of decomposing trash.
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