Cumulative donations to US charities for disaster relief
Most relief donations arrive within six weeks of a major disaster.
$0
$500m
$1b
$2b
$2b
$3b
$3b
$4b
$4b
0 weeks
1 weeks
2 weeks
3 weeks
4 weeks
5 weeks
6 weeks
7 weeks
8 weeks
9 weeks
10 weeks
11 weeks
12 weeks
13 weeks
14 weeks
15 weeks
16 weeks
2001 9/11
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
2005 Hurricane Katrina
2010 Haiti Earthquake
2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
2012 Superstorm Sandy
Amounts given are adjusted for inflation to 2017 dollars. Some data is not available.
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