EM-DAT disaster number (DisNo.)

ID emdat_disaster_number

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Number of a disaster event in EM-DAT, the international disaster database of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED, UCLouvain). It is the year (4 digits), a hyphen and a four-digit sequence number; the EM-DAT public table appends a hyphen and the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the affected country, with one row per country for the same DisNo.

Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste), Government related
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Wikidata: P14355
Quality: 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^(?:19|20)\d{2}-\d{4}(?:-[A-Z]{3})?$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
2020-0218	Tropical Storm Amanda (2020); Wikidata
2020-0312	Hurricane Isaias (2020); Wikidata
2020-0022-BRA	2020 floods and mudslides in Brazil, public table form; Wikidata
2020-218 invalid	Sequence number not padded to four digits
EQ-2010-000009-HTI invalid	GLIDE number, not an EM-DAT number

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	Номер бедствия в EM-DAT (DisNo.)	Номер события в международной базе данных о бедствиях EM-DAT (CRED, Лувенский университет) — год и четырёхзначный порядковый номер, в публичной таблице с трёхбуквенным кодом страны.

Sources

Use this record

Page URL: https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/emdat_disaster_number
JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
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