Natural hazard fatalities in Switzerland from 1946 to 2015

Badoux, Alexandre; Andres, Norina; Techel, Frank; Hegg, Christoph

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2747-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2747-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2747-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 12

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19 Dec 2016

Research article |

| 19 Dec 2016

Natural hazard fatalities in Switzerland from 1946 to 2015

Alexandre Badoux, Norina Andres, Frank Techel, and Christoph Hegg

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RC1: 'Referee report on the manuscript nhess-2016-232 by Badoux et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to anonymous referee #1', Alexandre Badoux, 07 Oct 2016
RC2: 'Referee Comments on "Natural Hazard Fatalities in Switzerland form 1946 to 2015"', Ronald Holle, 06 Sep 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to referee #2 (R. Holle)', Alexandre Badoux, 07 Oct 2016

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (08 Oct 2016) by Sven Fuchs

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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Nov 2016) by Sven Fuchs

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A database of fatalities caused by natural hazards in Switzerland was compiled for the period from 1946 to 2015: in 70 years, 635 events occurred causing 1023 fatalities. The most common causes of death were snow avalanches (37 %), followed by lightning (16 %), floods (12 %), windstorms (10 %), rockfalls (8 %) and landslides (7 %). The annual number of victims showed a distinct decrease over time. In comparison to other countries, the natural hazard mortality rate in Switzerland is quite low.