Natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, and tornadoes can have significant environmental, economic, and human impacts. They often permanently alter the local landscape and can lead to the destruction of local species. Even minor storms can cause considerable economic damage through infrastructure destruction and business interruption. Beyond direct impacts, natural disasters also cause indirect effects like utility disruptions and emotional tolls like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress. The loss of lives and homes creates further hardships for victims. Overall, natural disasters have wide-ranging consequences on environments, economies, and human well-being.

1. EFFECTS OF NATURAL
DISASTERS

2. Natural disaster ..
 is a effect of a natural hazard – e.g. volcanic
eruption, earthquakes, landslides, floods and
tornadoes, avalanches.
 It is the force of nature, which affects the
environment and leads to environmental, financial
and/or human losses.
 The term natural has consequently been disputed
because the events simply are not hazards or
disasters without human involvement.
 It is usually the secondary events that the disasters
trigger.

3. There is also an extra categorization for fire-, health
and disease- and space disasters.

7. So, what really are
the effects of those
disasters?

8. 1)Environment
 Volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires
and mudslides often permanently alter an
area's landscape, leading in some cases
to the destruction of a local species.

9. 2) Economic Concerns
 Even a minor storm can cause
considerable damage. At the very least,
the local economy must be able to
absorb the cost of cleanup and repairs.
According to the National Hurricane Center,
Hurricane Katrina cost the U.S. $75 billion when it
slammed into New Orleans in August 2005. That
doesn't include the damage caused in the Florida
counties of Miami-Dade and Broward by the same
storm.

11. 3)Indirect Effects
 Natural disasters almost always lead to a
disruption in utility services around the
area impacted. Medical assistance is
often slowed. Banks and other businesses
might be closed, affecting a family's
ability to withdraw money to pay bills and
buy groceries. People have to move.

12. 4)Physical Destruction
 Buildings
are collapsing and swept away,
posessions destroyed – all this leads to
leaving families homeless, shutting down
businesses.

14. 5)Emotional toll
 Theemotional toll of natural disasters is
much more devastating. The death of a
loved one, whole communities may be
displaced, separating friends and
neighbors, victims face anxiety and
depression as they wonder if it could
happen again. In extreme cases, they
may experience post traumatic stress
disorder.

16. 6)Human losses
 Peopleare washed away, drowning, left
under the collapsed buildings and so on.

17. Going through a natural
disaster is not understandable
for people, who haven´t gone
through these kind of
tragedies. But those people
can always help the victims by
donating clothes, money and
other things that are needed.

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