Natural disaster

Quality:

Natural disaster - major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth, which may cause loss of life or property. Article “Natural disaster” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 425^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3155^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2433^rd most popular in all topics.

The 4593^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 539^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 5055^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Natural disaster” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5055^th place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Natural disaster”, its content was written by 45 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3155^th place) and edited by 3685 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4593^rd place).

The article is cited 105 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10819 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #46 in July 2019
• Global: #593 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #93 in June 2019
• Global: #787 in June 2015

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Natural disaster		97.2143
2	Czech (cs) Přírodní katastrofa		94.3744
3	Chinese (zh) 自然灾害		85.4013
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Prirodna katastrofa		84.299
5	Indonesian (id) Bencana alam		82.9495
6	Esperanto (eo) Naturkatastrofo		80.2487
7	Basque (eu) Hondamen natural		69.4674
8	Serbian (sr) Природне катастрофе		59.0609
9	Armenian (hy) Տարերային աղետներ		57.5826
10	Russian (ru) Стихийное бедствие		56.7507

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Natural disaster		21 545 116
2	Spanish (es) Desastre natural		15 215 981
3	Indonesian (id) Bencana alam		2 802 676
4	Hindi (hi) प्राकृतिक आपदा		1 938 547
5	Turkish (tr) Doğal afet		1 896 910
6	Russian (ru) Стихийное бедствие		1 780 472
7	Arabic (ar) كارثة طبيعية		1 681 307
8	Japanese (ja) 自然災害		1 578 670
9	German (de) Naturkatastrophe		1 473 083
10	French (fr) Catastrophe naturelle		1 333 407

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Natural disaster		39 203
2	Spanish (es) Desastre natural		9 149
3	Simple English (simple) Natural disaster		4 207
4	Hindi (hi) प्राकृतिक आपदा		2 943
5	Japanese (ja) 自然災害		2 840
6	Russian (ru) Стихийное бедствие		2 428
7	French (fr) Catastrophe naturelle		1 640
8	Chinese (zh) 自然灾害		1 434
9	Indonesian (id) Bencana alam		1 250
10	German (de) Naturkatastrophe		1 157

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Natural disaster		1 210
2	German (de) Naturkatastrophe		364
3	Spanish (es) Desastre natural		333
4	French (fr) Catastrophe naturelle		116
5	Dutch (nl) Natuurramp		112
6	Italian (it) Disastro naturale		95
7	Japanese (ja) 自然災害		83
8	Arabic (ar) كارثة طبيعية		73
9	Hebrew (he) אסון טבע		73
10	Chinese (zh) 自然灾害		72

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Disastro naturale		3
2	Armenian (hy) Տարերային աղետներ		2
3	Catalan (ca) Catàstrofe natural		1
4	Czech (cs) Přírodní katastrofa		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Naturkatastrofo		1
6	Spanish (es) Desastre natural		1
7	Simple English (simple) Natural disaster		1
8	Arabic (ar) كارثة طبيعية		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Təbii fəlakət		0
10	Belarusian (be) Стыхійнае бедства		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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