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A disaster is a serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. Disasters are routinely divided into either "natural disasters" caused by natural hazards or "human-instigated disasters" caused from anthropogenic hazards. However, in modern times, the divide between natural, human-made and human-accelerated disasters is difficult to draw.Examples of natural hazards include avalanches, flooding, cold waves and heat waves, droughts, earthquakes, cyclones, landslides, lightning, tsunamis, volcanic activity, wildfires, and winter precipitation. Examples of anthropogenic hazards include criminality, civil disorder, terrorism, war, industrial hazards, engineering hazards, power outages, fire, hazards caused by transportation, and environmental hazards. Developing countries suffer the greatest costs when a disaster hits – more than 95% of all deaths caused by hazards occur in developing countries, and losses due to natural hazards are 20 times greater (as a percentage of gross domestic product) in developing countries than in industrialized countries.
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Disasters
Calamities producing great damage, loss of life, and distress. They include results of natural phenomena and man-made phenomena. Normal conditions of existence are disrupted and the level of impact exceeds the capacity of the hazard-affected community.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Disasters in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Disasters in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Disasters in a Sentence
The new analysis ...(confirms) 2015 was a disastrous year for children who had their education disrupted by wars and natural disasters, world leaders need to urgently guarantee that there isn't a future humanitarian emergency response where education isn't seen as critical.
Mostly, only the poor are affected by the disasters, not the rich.
We have 250 grief mentors from air disasters dating back to 1958 -- private, military and commercial air disasters, this gives people an opportunity to share what they went through with somebody else and also provide hope for them.
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
I don't think the funeral will be the last great global event of the television era, but, alas, the great global TV events of the future will probably be disasters : an assassination, a terrorist attack, a deliberate or accidental nuclear event, a huge natural disaster, a pandemic, a coup in a major North American democracy — something everyone will have to watch.
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