A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, heatwave, or landslide). It leads to financial, environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard, also called 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.] A concrete example of the division between a natural hazard and a natural disaster is that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a disaster, whereas earthquakes are a hazard. This article gives an introduction to notable natural disasters, refer to the list of natural disasters for a comprehensive listing.
Some of the most significant earthquakes in recent times include:
- The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the third largest earthquake in recorded history, registering a moment magnitude of 9.1-9.3. The hugetsunamis triggered by this earthquake cost the lives of at least 229,000 people.
- The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami registered a moment magnitude of 9.0. The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami is over 13,000, and over 12,000 people are still missing.
- The 8.8 magnitude February 27, 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami cost 525 lives.
- The 7.9 magnitude May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake in Sichuan Province, China. Death toll at over 61,150 as of May 27, 2008.
- The 7.7 magnitude July 2006 Java earthquake, which also triggered tsunamis.
- The 7.6-7.7 2005 Kashmir earthquake, which cost 79,000 lives in Pakistan.
Some of the most notable floods include:
- The Huang He (Yellow River) in China floods particularly often. The Great Flood of 1931 caused between 800,000 and 4,000,000 deaths.
- The Great Flood of 1993 was one of the most costly floods in United States history.
- The 1998 Yangtze River Floods, in China, left 14 million people homeless.
- The 2000 Mozambique flood covered much of the country for three weeks, resulting in thousands of deaths, and leaving the country devastated for years afterward.
- The 2005 Mumbai floods which destroyed 1094 people.
- The 2010 Pakistan floods, damaged crops and the infrastructure, while claiming many lives.
Tropical cyclones can result in extensive flooding and storm surge, as happened with:
- Bhola Cyclone, which struck East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1970,
- Typhoon Nina, which struck China in 1975,
- Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans, Louisiana in 2005, and
- Cyclone Yasi, which struck Australia in 2011
Significant blizzards include:
- The Great Blizzard of 1888 in the United States
- The 2008 Afghanistan blizzard
- The North American blizzard of 1947
- The 1972 Iran blizzard resulted in approximately 4,000 deaths and lasted for 5 to 7 days.
Well-known historical droughts include:
- 1900 India killing between 250,000 and 3.25 million.
- 1921-22 Soviet Union in which over 5 million perished from starvation due to drought
- 1928-30 northwest China resulting in over 3 million deaths by famine.
- 1936 and 1941 Sichuan Province China resulting in 5 million and 2.5 million deaths respectively.
- As of 2006, states of Australia including South Australia, Western Australia, New South Wales, Northern Territory and Queensland had been under drought conditions for five to ten years. The drought is beginning to affect urban area populations for the first time. With the majority of the country underwater restrictions.
- In 2006, Sichuan Province China experienced its worst drought in modern times with nearly 8 million people and over 7 million cattle facing water shortages.
Heat waves
The worst heat wave in recent history was the European Heat Wave of 2003.
A summer heat wave in Victoria, Australia, created conditions which fuelled the massive bushfires in 2009. Melbourne experienced three days in a row of temperatures exceeding 40°C with some regional areas sweltering through much higher temperatures. The bushfires, collectively known as "Black Saturday", were partly the act of arsonists.
The 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer resulted in severe heat waves, which killed over 2,000 people. It resulted in hundreds of wildfires which causing widespread air pollution, and burned thousands of square miles of forest.
Epidemics
An epidemic is an outbreak of a contractible disease that spreads at a rapid rate through a human population. A pandemic is an epidemic whose spread is global. There have been many epidemics throughout history, such as Black Death. In the last hundred years, significant pandemics include:
- The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, killing an estimated 50 million people worldwide
- The 1957-58 Asian flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 1 million people
- The 1968-69 Hong Kong flu pandemic
- The 2002-3 SARS pandemic
- The AIDS pandemic, beginning in 1959
- The H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) Pandemic 2009-2010
Other diseases that spread more slowly, but are still considered to be global health emergencies by theWHO include:
- XDR TB, a strain of tuberculosis that is extensively resistant to drug treatments
- Malaria, which kills an estimated 1.6 million people each year
- Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which has claimed hundreds of victims in Africa in several outbreaks
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2008 August 31 Seattle - Hevajra Event.
Dharma speech by GM - GM said that some Dark Angels descended upon Earth.
The auspiciousness of the event is not a 100%......we experienced :-
The Financial markets took deep dives worldwide!
The H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) Pandemic 2009-2010The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami registered a moment magnitude of 9.0. The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami is over 13,000, and over 12,000 people are still missing.
and much more.....
Why does Dark Angels descend?
The Gods are wrathful?
The Gods try to educate sentient beings and make them God-fearing?
Please think about these, and also the preceding articles on this topic.
Amituofo / Lotuschef / Pure Karma / True Buddha School
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