Natural disaster

A natural disaster is the consequence of the combination of a natural hazard and human activities. Human vulnerability, caused by the lack of appropriate emergency management

Emergency management

Emergency management is the discipline dealing with and avoiding risks....

, leads to financial, structural, and human losses. The resulting loss depend on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster, their resilience .

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528 Natural disaster: An earthquake strikes Antioch, killing thousands, and causing a fire that destroyed the Great Church built by Constantine the Great.

1931 Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people - the most deadly historic natural disaster.

1996 July 21 - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, in one of Canada's most costly natural disasters.

2004 One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits southeastern Asia when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Burma and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.

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A natural disaster is the consequence of the combination of a natural hazard and human activities. Human vulnerability, caused by the lack of appropriate emergency management

Emergency management