Flooding And Tornado Continues Threaten Australia

Disaster after another in the world in recent decades. Both catastrophic geology, hydro-meteorological, biological and human-induced. Records of the National Disaster Management , during the last three decades, the disaster in the world increased by about 350 percent. This significant effect on the economy and global society.

Earthquake events in Haiti in 2010, floods in Pakistan, 2010, and 2011 floods in Thailand's economy more and more degrading to poor countries and emerging markets. "While floods in Australia, New Zealand earthquakes, and earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011, shows that rich countries are not immune to the risk of disaster" Global economic losses from disasters, the average in the 10 years since 2000 is U.S. $ 110 billion, where total insured losses of around U.S. $ 35 billion. Meanwhile, global disaster caused economic losses of U.S. $ 130 billion.

In 2011, losses increased by almost two-fold. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011 caused losses of U.S. $ 220 billion, or 3.4 percent of Japan's GDP, or nearly one-fifth of Indonesia's GDP today. Similarly, floods in Thailand in late 2011 caused 754 deaths, 10 million people suffering, and loss of U.S. $ 45 billion. Thailand's economic growth dropped about 2.4 percent.

After being hit by the flood that has not ended to this day,A mini-tornado has destroyed homes in the city of Townsville in north-eastern coast of Australia, this tornado winds damaged 40 homes and cut off the electricity to 7000 residents.

Tornadoes occurred for 10 minutes at 111 kilometers per hour. This tornado also uprooted some trees and nine people were reported injured. Department of Public Safety told the Australian Associated Press (AAP) about 30 houses have been damaged, including some of whom have lost their entire roof due to a mini tornado hit ..

Townsville's worst damage is concentrated in the area around a radius of one kilometer, in the suburb of Vincent, Pimlico and Gulliver, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh told reporters in Cairns in the north of the country on Tuesday morning that there were initial reports are very sad of a very bad storm in Townsville on Tuesday morning.

"It seems to be something akin to a mini tornado, has taken the roof of the house and there are a lot of vegetation down and it causes great damage," he said.

He said preliminary reports indicate that the damage could be as bad as the devastating storm Gap in Brisbane a few years ago, when more than two dozen other homes were destroyed and 4000 damaged.