Sentences with phrase «percent of all natural disasters»

People tend to underestimate this risk, but 90 percent of all natural disasters — especially hurricanes — include some form of flooding.

Ninety percent of all natural disasters in the United States involve flooding, and flood damage strikes frequently in low or moderate risk areas.

With 90 percent of natural disasters in the U.S. being flood related.

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While we all live with death and loss, many of us may also know tragedy intimately; in the course of a lifetime, there's a 22 percent chance we'll experience a natural disaster, a 69 percent chance we'll experience a traumatic event — a tragic death, an automobile accident, an assault.

This group of small countries constitute roughly five percent of the global population.The member - states share the same challenges in terms of scarce resources, vulnerability to natural disasters, dependency on international trade, and small but growing populations in narrow and sometimes submerging portions of land.

«After natural disasters only about 20 - 25 percent of people are going to go on to develop depression.

Five months after Puerto Rico's worst natural disaster in nearly a century, more than 30 percent of the island — over 900,000 people — still live without electricity.

And in Japan, the quick suspension of nuclear power generation after the Fukushima disaster led to more natural gas and oil use, pushing emissions up 1 percent to 336 million tons in 2012.

The number of natural disasters has more than tripled since 1970 — 90 percent of them are weather related.

One week after the leak, the Trump administration announced plans to rescind an Obama - era rule requiring the federal government to provide $ 10 billion in annual funding to go toward storm - proofing infrastructure projects against the storm surges and heavy rains that accompany 90 percent of U.S. natural disasters.

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported the number of people affected by natural disasters fell 43 percent when compared to the previous 10 - year average.

Natural disasters hit developing countries the hardest — 95 percent of all linked deaths between 1970 and 2008 are in these countries.

In developing countries, where insurance now covers less than 2 percent of the costs of «natural» disasters (compared with the United States, where half are insured), hurricanes can set back development by decades.

Cities have emerged as first responders to climate change because they experience the impacts of natural disasters firsthand and because they produce up to 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.

It is near the top 25 percent of worst cities in the U.S.. Its additional exposure to natural disasters means that failing to get home insurance is a risk not worth taking for the average family.

The Trip Protector Lite plan guarantees customers a 100 percent reimbursement up to $ 10,000 on trips that are cancelled or interrupted due to covered reasons such as natural disasters, terrorism, hospitalization of a host, labor strikes, traffic accidents or loss of employment.

The April Travel Protection Economy Plan covers 100 percent of the cost of a trip when travel plans are canceled for covered scenarios such as poor health, inclement weather, natural disasters, airline strikes, terrorist attacks, stolen passports and more.

A full 100 percent of donations go to natural disasters victims in need of housing - related assistance.