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Definition
CRED defines a disaster as “a
situation or event which overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a
request to a national or international level for external assistance; an
unforeseen and often sudden event that causes great damage, destruction
and human suffering”.
Criteria
For a disaster to be entered
into the database, at least one of the following criteria must be
fulfilled:
• 10 or more people reported
killed;
• 100 or more people reported
affected;
• declaration of a state of
emergency;
• call for international
assistance.
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