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The online map of disaster frequency distribution by disaster type in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 2014 is from the Atlas of natural disasters in China in 2014, the book is edited by the National Disaster Reduction Commission Office, the Disaster relief Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Disaster Reduction Center of Ministry of Civil Affairs, and is published by China Map Publishing House. The scale of this map is 1:11000000.

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

In 2014, the disaster situation in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was the same as that in recent years, with earthquakes, floods and geological disasters, low temperature freezing and snow disasters as the main disasters, and the direct economic loss was the highest in recent years.

1.Frequent disasters, local loss and weightlessness

Xinjiang suffered from various natural disasters such as low temperature freezing, snow disasters, earthquakes, wind and hail, floods, droughts, and geological disasters throughout the year, causing casualties and economic losses. From January to October, there were 9 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or higher and 6 earthquakes of magnitude 5 or higher, among them, the Yutian earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on February 12 and multiple aftershocks caused a large number of houses to collapse and damage. Wind and hail disasters occurred frequently throughout the year, and Aksu, Bortala, Ili and Tacheng regions were more seriously affected, during the news period, floods occurred frequently, and the Kashgar area, Kyzyl Suzhou, Ili Prefecture, and Altay area were severely affected.

2.Obvious seasonal and regional characteristics

In the spring, the disasters were mainly low temperature freezing and snow disasters, and snow-melting floods occurred locally, Hami, Yili Prefecture, and Changji Prefecture were more severely affected, from April to September, droughts occurred in some areas, causing serious crop yields or no harvests. During the flood season, some areas are attacked by severe convective weather such as rainfall and hail, causing floods, wind and hail, landslides and other disasters, resulting in death of personnel, flooding of crops and damage of houses.

The proportion of the total number of disasters in the region (%):

The closer to the dark purple area shows: The ratio of the number of disasters to the total number of disasters in the region is ≥ 10.

The closer to the light purple area shows: The ratio of the number of disasters to the total number of disasters in the region is 5-10.

The gray and white area in the figure shows: The proportion of the number of disasters to the total number of disasters in the area is ＜5.

The white area in the figure shows： Non affected areas.

The orange sector in the figure shows: Drought disaster.

The blue sector in the figure shows: Floods and geological disasters.

The brown sector in the figure shows: Wind and hail disaster.

The green sector in the figure shows: Typhoon disaster.

The pink sector in the figure shows: Earthquake disaster.

The purple sector in the figure shows: Low temperature freezing and snow disaster.