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What Is A Disaster?

A disaster is defined as a natural or man-made hazardous event that causes significant damage through destruction, loss of life, or environmental change. Common features of a disaster include large-scale disruption to societal functioning and losses of life, property and livelihood affecting many people and requiring outside aid, as well as major economic impacts. Examples include the 2011 earthquake in Japan and the 2004 tsunami in Chennai, India.

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What Is A Disaster?

A disaster is defined as a natural or man-made hazardous event that causes significant damage through destruction, loss of life, or environmental change. Common features of a disaster include large-scale disruption to societal functioning and losses of life, property and livelihood affecting many people and requiring outside aid, as well as major economic impacts. Examples include the 2011 earthquake in Japan and the 2004 tsunami in Chennai, India.

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what is a disaster?

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A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods, catastrophic accidents, fires, or explosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life, property and destroy the economic, social and cultural life of people.

common features of a disaster. disruption in the normal functioning of the society , thereby affecting a large number of people large scale loss to life , property , livelihood, thereby affecting the community which requires external aid to cope up with the losses. a big blow to the country's economy.

earthquake in japan.

tsunami in chennai ,2004.

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