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  1. disasters

    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.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. 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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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of disasters in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of disasters in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of disasters in a Sentence

  1. Stan Hays:

    Barbecue is comfort food, disasters are what we do, but our passion is helping people. ... For us, that's about both feeding those who are hungry and honoring veterans and those in the military.

  2. Colin Wellenkamp:

    The needs of our health care system is surging, so what PPE we have is being taken up by our health care system, so, we need to create slack and build additional supply in order to meet the needs of the natural disasters we're expecting.

  3. Jan Egeland:

    Natural disasters displace three to 10 times more people than all conflicts and war in the world combined.

  4. John Horowitz:

    It's well-known that patients quite frequently get Takotsubo syndrome at times of extreme stress or during natural disasters, but there are problems with the way the study was designed. I don't believe all of these cases are Takotsubo. It's as simple as that.

  5. Jim Carter:

    The( concept) is that Lord Grantham has asked Lord Grantham to reminisce about Lord Grantham time at Downton Abbey, so Lord Grantham goes back and we talk about the loves, the lives, the disasters, the tragedies, the fun of the whole six series, which is linked together by the music.

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