The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) recorded 2,564 disasters throughout 2018. This number is lower than in 2017, which reached 2,862 disasters. However, the impact of last year's disasters resulted in more fatalities than the previous year.
Last year's disasters caused 3,349 deaths and 1,432 missing persons. A total of 21,064 people were injured, and 10.2 million people were displaced or affected.
In 2018, Indonesia was hit by three rare disasters that caused many casualties. First, a series of earthquakes in West Nusa Tenggara. Second, the tsunami followed by liquefaction in Central Sulawesi. Third, the tsunami in the Sunda Strait caused by an underwater landslide and the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau.
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