Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with disasters (number of cases)_

Event_Log

1. 012017Kermanshah earthquakeAssociation

   M7.3 earthquake on the Iran-Iraq border kills an estimated 630 people and destroys or damages over 15,500 houses in Kermanshah province, Iran's deadliest earthquake since Bam; NOAA's Significant Earthquake Database estimates $750 million in damage, while the Iranian government's own assessment put reconstruction costs closer to EUR 5 billion.

   Why this link: New disaster-related internal displacement recorded 225,000 cases in 2017, by far the largest figure in the 2010-2016 run of this series (which had ranged from 78 to 12,000), directly matching the M7.3 Kermanshah earthquake that killed an estimated 630 people and destroyed or damaged over 15,500 houses in November of that year.

   Caveat: The series' next-largest spike, 520,000 in 2019, has no matching catastrophe row in this project's Iran timeline -- the well-documented March-April 2019 Iran floods across Golestan, Khuzestan and Lorestan provinces were a real, large displacement event but are not yet a dated entry in timeline/iran.csv, which currently records only earthquakes under the Natural Disasters domain. Flagged here as a known gap rather than force-fit to an unrelated event.

   Lag: immediate (same year)Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) — Significant Earthquake Database