The CnOpenData Global Emergency Event Database compiles natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, floods, epidemics) and technological accidents (e.g., industrial explosions, transportation disasters) occurring worldwide from 1990 to present, covering over 200 countries/regions.
Data Features:
- Comprehensive Coverage: Incorporates multi-category disaster data globally since 1990, utilizing a three-tier international classification system with extensive samples.
- Precise Geotagging: Location granularity at country-region-city levels, including accurate latitude and longitude coordinates, suitable for spatial analysis.
- Multidimensional Metrics: Encompasses critical indicators such as event timing, casualties (人员伤亡), property damage (房屋损毁), economic losses (经济损失), and response records, with detailed quantification.
Potential Applications:
- Academic Research: Disaster chain modeling, climate change correlation analysis, public health early-warning system development.
- Business Decision-Making: Regional risk assessment, actuarial model optimization for insurance, supply chain resilience planning.
- Policy Formulation: Historical disaster pattern identification, emergency resource allocation strategy validation, revealing dynamic interrelations between disasters and human activities to provide empirical support for sustainable development goals.
Centered on three decades of global emergency records, CnOpenData's database establishes a foundational disaster research repository with historical depth and multidimensional analytical capabilities. It delivers critical data support for deciphering disaster patterns, optimizing emergency decision-making, enhancing global resilience, and advancing sustainable development objectives.
Time Range
March 1990 – March 2025
Field Display
Sample Data
Data Update Frequency
Annual updates