Singapore’s Historical Disaster Profile
Singapore has experienced a small number of disasters since it was founded in
1965 (Table 1). In this section, we briefly provide an historical account of
Singapore’s disaster risk profiles including earthquakes, floods, epidemics, civil
emergencies, and haze. According to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology
of Disasters (CRED) EM-DAT,2
an emergency event is classified as a disaster if it
meets at least one of the following criteria: 10 or more people reported killed, 100
people reported affected, the declaration of a state emergency, and the call for
international assistance. However, to provide an overview of Singapore’s disaster
profiles, this paper lists all major public emergencies in the city-state from 1965
onwards.