NDLI: Lightning fatalities in Colombia from 2000 to 2009

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Navarrete-Aldana, N. Cooper, M.A. Holle, R.L.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Holle Meteorol. & Photography, Oro Valley, AZ, USA (Holle, R.L.) \|\| Burn Intensive Care Unit, Simon Bolivar Hosp., Bogota, Colombia (Navarrete-Aldana, N.) \|\| Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (Cooper, M.A.)
Abstract	National lightning fatality information has been gathered and published for several decades over Australia, Canada, Japan, the United States, and Western Europe, but few such studies have taken place and been published in the formal literature during the last decade in other areas. National lightning fatality data are difficult to collect in many countries, especially in tropical regions, despite a high frequency of lightning. To partially fill this gap, the current paper provides the first comprehensive national summary of lightning deaths in Colombia. Data from the National Administrative Department of Statistics were gathered for 2000 through 2009 and were classified according to the number of fatalities by year, month, gender, age, and location of the fatality. These data were assigned to geographic departments to determine the fatality rates per type of population. Comparison was also made with the population percentage in rural areas where the outdoor lightning risk may be greater than in cities due to labor intensive agricultural practices, housing that is unsafe from the lightning threat, lack of access to weather forecasts and lightning safety knowledge, and other factors. Data from an international lightning locating system also were used to determine the annual lightning frequency and monthly totals in Colombia. During the ten study years, 757 deaths were identified. The highest mortality rates were in rural areas with a maximum of 7.69 deaths per million per year in the Vaupes Department of eastern Colombia. The death rate for all of Colombia was 1.78 per million per year during the same period.
Starting Page	40
Ending Page	46
File Size	1484189
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479935444
DOI	10.1109/ICLP.2014.6971992
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-10-11
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Lightning casualty epidemiology Hospitals Sociology Employment Lightning Colombian lightning fatalities Educational institutions Lightning accident prevention Safety Statistics Lightning casualties
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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