variables: 900821

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id name unit description createdAt updatedAt code coverage timespan datasetId sourceId shortUnit display columnOrder originalMetadata grapherConfigAdmin shortName catalogPath dimensions schemaVersion processingLevel processingLog titlePublic titleVariant attributionShort attribution descriptionShort descriptionFromProducer descriptionKey descriptionProcessing licenses license grapherConfigETL type sort dataChecksum metadataChecksum
900821 Number of reported natural disasters with a medium impact events   2024-05-07 15:03:55 2024-07-25 23:14:18     1900-2024 6501     
{
    "name": "Medium",
    "unit": "events"
}
 0     n_medium_events_yearly grapher/emdat/2024-04-11/natural_disasters_impact/natural_disasters_yearly_impact#n_medium_events_yearly   2 major   Number of reported natural disasters with a medium impact   EM-DAT   Reported disasters that do not fall under the categories of "small" or "large".   
[
    "EM-DAT defines a disaster as a situation or event which overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a request to the national or international level for external assistance; an unforeseen and often sudden event that causes great damage, destruction, and human suffering. Of all EM-DAT disasters, we select geophysical, meteorological, hydrological, and climatological events, which include droughts, earthquakes, extreme temperatures, floods, glacial lake outburst floods, mass movements, extreme weather events, volcanic activity, and wildfires.",
    "EM-DAT counts deaths as deceased and missing people combined, as a result of a natural disaster.",
    "EM-DAT counts injured as people with physical injuries, trauma, or illness requiring immediate medical assistance due to the disaster.",
    "Affected people are those requiring immediate assistance due to the disaster.",
    "EM-DAT counts homeless as people requiring shelter due to their house being destroyed or heavily damaged during the disaster.",
    "The total number of affected people is the sum of those injured, affected, and left homeless after a disaster.",
    "The total damage is defined as the value of all economic losses directly or indirectly due to the disaster, unadjusted for inflation.",
    "A disaster is considered to have a \"small\" impact if it results in no more than 5 deaths, affects no more than 1,500 people, and causes economic damages not exceeding 13 million current US dollars. The economic threshold for previous years is adjusted for inflation accordingly.",
    "A disaster is considered to have a \"large\" impact if it results in more than 50 deaths, affects more than 150,000 people, or causes economic damages exceeding 320 million current US dollars. The economic threshold for previous years is adjusted for inflation accordingly.",
    "A disaster is considered to have a \"medium\" impact if it does not fall under the categories of \"small\" or \"large\".",
    "A disaster is considered to have an \"unknown\" impact if there is no data available on the number of deaths, affected people, or economic damages.",
    "These definitions on the relative impacts of natural disasters are adapted from Guha-Sapir et al. (2004), and were originally based on definitions by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)."
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