NATURAL DISASTERS

A natural disaster is the consequence of a natural hazard which affects human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or lack of appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster, 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, strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas. The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement.

Tsunami: Killer Waves

The most infamous tsunami of modern times hit Indian Ocean shorelines on the day after Christmas 2004. That tsunami is believed to have packed the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. Some 150,000 people were killed in a single day.... more

Previous blog entries:
Oct 2	-	Lightning Can Strike Twice
Oct 2	-	Killer Wind Funnels
Oct 2	-	Speeding Snow

Tornadoes

A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. Tornadoes come in many sizes but are typically in the form of a visible... more

Previous videos:
Sep 30	-	Tempestade de Areia
Sep 30	-	Terremoto Valparaiso Chile Earthquake cataclysm FULL NATGEO
Sep 30	-	Perfect Disaster - Ice Stom

Dayse

avalanches, lightning

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