Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 — Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, released the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during December 2012. The December catastrophe report reveals that Super Typhoon Bopha killed 1,901 people and injured 2,666 others after making landfall on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao as a Category 5 typhoon. Bopha damaged or destroyed more than 216,000 homes in 34 provinces including Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley which sustained extensive damage.