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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g. flood, tornado , volcano eruption, earthquake, or landslide) that affects the environment, and leads to financial, environmental and/or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster, and their resilience. This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability." A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability, e.g. strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas. The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement. Natural hazardsMain article: Natural hazardA natural hazard is a threat of an event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment. Many natural hazards are related, e.g. earthquakes can result in tsunamis, drought can lead directly to famine and disease. A concrete example of the division between hazard and disaster is that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a disaster, whereas earthquakes are a hazard. Hazards are consequently relating to a future occurrence and disasters to past or current occurrences. Natural disastersMain articles: disaster and list of deadliest natural disastersFrom Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What is a natural disaster that occured in a Spanish speaking country? Q. i have to talk about a natural disaster that occured..it doesnt have to be something current but there has to be like articles and stuff on it that i can find. any ideas? thanks Asked by kiwi lvr - Mon Sep 21 15:45:13 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments A. Montezuma's revenge. Answered by Spell Check !! - Mon Sep 21 15:57:13 2009 Has the US ever accepted foreign aid for a natural disaster? Q. I'm hearing about all the aid other countries are sending to Myanmar in the wake of the terrible cyclone. The USA is such an independent country. I wonder if they ever have or ever would accept for aid from another country for a natural disaster, like Hurricane Katrina? Asked by giraffedolly - Fri May 9 21:48:24 2008 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments A. yes, Answered by Tim W - Fri May 9 21:58:49 2008 What natural disaster intrigues you the most? Why?
Q. I've always been fascinated with the weather and I'm curious as to which natural disaster intrigues you. The ones that intrigues me the most are tornados - just something about them has always left me in awe. Asked by Sardonic713Sabrina - Wed Feb 20 15:39:53 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. electrical storms, ever seen one? nature at its finest, i was here in Buffalo, nY for the October surprise last year, thunder/wind/sleet/everyt hing storm, took us weeks to recoup, craziest thing i've ever seen, and we get tons of storms here Answered by you-asked! - Wed Feb 20 15:49:07 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "natural disaster"
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