---
id: "emdat_disaster_number"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["environment", "government"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/emdat_disaster_number"
---

# EM-DAT disaster number (DisNo.) (`emdat_disaster_number`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment), Government related (government)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `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 example) — Sequence number not padded to four digits
- `EQ-2010-000009-HTI` (invalid example) — GLIDE number, not an EM-DAT number

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P14355`

## Translations

- ru: 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

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14355>
- doc: <https://doc.emdat.be/docs/data-structure-and-content/emdat-public-table/>
- doc: <https://www.emdat.be/>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/emdat_disaster_number.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/environment/emdat_disaster_number.yaml>