Explanatory graphic from the CRED report 'Economic Losses, Poverty & Disasters 1998-2017' showing the economic losses of natural disasters that happened during the twenty-year period accounted. 46 % of the total losses, equivalent to US$ 1,330 billion, are due to storms, 23 % to eartquakes and another 23% to floods, both equivalent to ca. US$ 660 billion. The remain losses are distributed among the other disaster types.