PART 1: DISASTERS INDUCED BY NATURAL HAZARD (NATURAL DISASTERS)

DISASTER

A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.

TYPES

1. DISASTERS INDUCED BY NATURAL HAZARD ( NATURAL DISASTERS)

2. HUMAN INSTIGATED DISASTERS (MAN MADE DISASTERS)

Examples of Natural Hazard:

1. Earthquakes, 
2. Landslides, 
3. Volcanic Eruptions, 
4. Floods, Hurricanes, 
5. Tornadoes, 
6. Blizzards, 
7. Tsunamis, 
8. Cyclones.

EARTHQUAKE :

Gujarat

-year 2001

- 20,000 deaths

-1,67,000 injured

-4,00,000 homes destroyed

LANDSLIDE:

Maharastra, India

year 2014

-Malin, Maharastra

-Human Deaths- 151

-Cattle -58

VOLCANIC ERUPTION:

Colombia

(Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia, 1985)

- Deaths-         23,080

-Injured 10,000

-Total Affected 12,700

FLOODS:

China

-year 1931

-Death toll -2,500,000–3,700,000

HURRICANE:

Bangladesh

-year 1970

-Bhola Cyclone

-East Pakistan (Bangladesh today)

TORNADO:

Bangladesh

-Year 1989

-Daulatpur-Salturia

-1300 deaths

-12,000 injured

-80,000 became homeless.

TSUNAMI :

INDIA OCEAN

-Year- 2004

-Indian Ocean (Sumatra, Indonesia)

-Estimated Number of Deaths: 350,000

CYCLONE:

ODISHA, INDIA

Year 1999

-Death 10,000

-275,000 homes were destroyed

-1.67 million people homeless

2. HUMAN INSTIGATED DISASTERS (MAN MADE DISASTERS)