Date: April 3, 2010
Continent: South America
Country: Peru
Category: Water Disasters
Sub-category: Mudslide due to Heavy Rains
Description
- heavy rains submerged one village in Peru
- believed to have hundreds of people burried
- mudslide was triggered by heavy rains

Date: April 5, 2010
Continent: North and Central America
Country: Mexico-California Border
Category: Land Movement
Sub-category: Earthquake
Description
- 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook tens of millions of people in both countries
- California Disneyland rides were closed
- some guests in hotels were evacuated

Date: April 6, 2010
Continent: South America
Country: Brazil
Category: Water Disasters
Sub-category: Flood
Description
- 30cm rainfall in less than 24 hours killed up to 154 people and shanty houses on a hill were buried by large mudslides, many were still missing
- cars were buried and many were stranded
- all major streets of Rio de Janeiro were closed due to flood
- thousands of families lost their homes and tens of thousand structures are at risk to collapse

Date: April 9, 2010
Continent: Asia
Country: China
Category: Health and Diseases
Sub-category: Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Description
- 40 children died of the infectious disease
- more or less 77,000 people were infected

Date: April 14, 2010
Continent: Europe
Country: Iceland
Category: Land Movement
Sub-category: Volcanic Eruption
Description
- ash plumes ejected was estimated to be around 250 million cubic meters
- ash trail reached as high as 11 kilometers
- created the highest air travel disruption since 1945
- melted part of the Southern Iceland glaciers causing heavy floods
forcing up to 800 people to be evacuated
- some roads are washed away by heavy floods
- 500 families near the area were immediately evacuated
- farming land has been destroyed in Iceland