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The title of the graph is "Text box 4 chart Significant disaster events for Canada recorded in the Canadian Disaster Database, 2000 to 2014."
This is a bar clustered chart.
This is a horizontal bar graph, so categories are on the vertical axis and values on the horizontal axis.
There are in total 19 categories in the vertical axis. The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 90 with ticks every 10 points.
There are 1 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "number."
The vertical axis is "Disaster event."
The minimum value is 1 and it corresponds to "Civil unrest/rioting, Earthquake and Heat wave."
The maximum value is 83 and it corresponds to "Flood."
| number | |
|---|---|
| Civil unrest/rioting | 1 |
| Earthquake | 1 |
| Heat wave | 1 |
| Act of terrorism | 2 |
| Drought | 2 |
| Infrastructure failure–extended power outage | 2 |
| Contamination–water or food | 3 |
| Fire/explosion–residential | 5 |
| Landslide/avalanche | 5 |
| Outbreak disease/ serious illness | 5 |
| Storm surge | 5 |
| Fire/explosion–non-residential | 6 |
| Tornado | 12 |
| Hurricane/tropical storm | 13 |
| Winter storm | 17 |
| Industrial or transportation accident | 18 |
| Storm/thunderstorm | 45 |
| Wildfire | 55 |
| Flood | 83 |
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