Subject: Science
A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses. This note provides an information on disasters.
A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. There are two types of disaster. They are:
A natural disaster is a disaster caused by nature, such as floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, lahars (volcanic mudslides), landslides, industrialization sinkholes, blizzards, drought, hailstorms, heat waves, hurricanes, tropical storms, typhoons, Ice Ages, tornadoes, and wildfires. Urbanization, industrialization, unscientific development, unscientific cultivation are the main causes of the disaster.
There are various causes of the disaster. According to the cause of the disaster, we can control or prevent such disaster. Following are the methods to manage disaster:
What is disaster?
A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
How many types of disaster are there? What are they?
There are two types of natural disaster. They are:
What is natural disaster?
Natural disaster are the disaster which occurs naturally. Landslide, volcano, flood, hurricane, lightening, tsunami etc. are the examples of natural disaster.
What is manmade disaster?
Disaster caused by humans are man-made disaster. Desertification, chemical disaster, machinery destruction, transport accidents etc are man-made disaster.
What are the methods to manage disaster?
Following are the methods to manage disaster:
What causes natural disaster?
A natural disaster is a disaster caused by nature, such as floods, volcanic eruptions,earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, lahars (volcanic mudslides), landslides,sinkholes, blizzards, drought, hailstorms, heat waves, hurricanes, tropical storms,typhoons, Ice Ages, tornadoes, and wildfires. Urbanization, over population, industrialization, unscientific development, unscientific cultivation are the main causes of disaster.
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