Japanese quake disaster makes the costliest year 2011

Berlin (AFP)-Japanese earthquake in March 2011, the costliest year are determined to make a date to natural disasters, those of the reinsurer Munich Re said on Tuesday, although the deaths at the global level is relatively low for the time being.

Total worldwide losses alone had 265 billion dollars, easily up to $ 220 billion posted in the first half of 2005, the whole year of natural disasters, the previously most expensive year to date, the German company said.

2011 financial losses during the first half amounted to more than five times higher than the average in the past 10 years, Munich Re said, and more than double in 2010 to 130 billion dollars in total.

In addition, Munich Re first-half losses are generally lower than the losses in the second half, which often influences of Hurricane storms in the North East Atlantic and the Pacific Northwest, the Typhoon will be added.
All of the damage, however, cover certain ' insured losses "during the first six months of the 60 billion dollars, almost five times the average since 2001.
"It is very rare in the uptake of such extreme events, natural hazards, the cold," Munich Re, the world's best showing in, said the statement.

9.0 on March 11, the dumping margin, the strongest ever, registered the quake-in Japan, caused a loss of 210 billion euros for its make a record, the costliest natural disaster in even higher levels of Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005.
Katrina, a southern United States in August and pummelled caused devastating floods in New Orleans, that resulted in 80 per cent of 125 been swallowed billion dollars worth of damage.

Insured losses were caused by Katrinan much higher, 62 billion dollars, more than double the Japanese quake, which was also her cooling systems, leaking radiation, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, the $ 30 billion of the Bill.
The Quake was also the largest disaster in the first half of 2011. in terms of human
At least the 15,500 people died and are still missing and thousands of after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed entire cities, who, in the North East coast of Japan, Munich Re said.

General of the people in terms of cost, however, relatively, in 2011, in--for the time being.

Natural disasters killed 19,380 people during the first six months compared with 230,300 in 2010.

January 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed, while at the same time, some of the 225,000 more than 50000 heatwaves and forest fires in Russia's frozen. Thousands also died in the floods, and earthquakes in China and Pakistan.
The loss of natural phenomena in 2011, during the first six months amounted to 355, 390 to some degree the previous 10 years below average.
Next the costliest natural disaster in the first half of 2011 had serious earthquake that shook the Christchurch, New Zealand, in February to 20 billion dollars to cause damage and killing 181 people, Munich Re said.

Severe Storms in April and may and in the southern United States in the Midwest, killing 520 people and caused a billion dollars damage, 14.5, the insured person's loss of around 10 billion dollars.

North-East Queensland in Australia in December and January, the damage of $ 7.3 billion of the $ 2.6 billion for its floods killed 35 of the insured and persons.

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