A disaster is a sudden, catastrophic event that causes serious disruption to a community or environment, leading to loss of life, property, and resources. 🧭 Key Points: Disaster = Hazard + Vulnerability A hazard becomes a disaster when people or communities are unable to cope. Types of Disasters: 🌋 Natural: Earthquakes, typhoons, floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides, droughts 🔥 Human-made (Man-made): Fires, chemical spills, war, industrial accidents, pollution Impacts of Disasters: 🔹 Loss of lives 🔹 Damage to homes, infrastructure, and environment 🔹 Economic loss 🔹 Physical and emotional suffering 🧯 Disaster vs. Emergency Emergency Disaster Can be managed with local resources Overwhelms local capacity Small-scale Large-scale and severe Example: minor fire Example: super typhoon

1. DISASTER

6. A disaster is a serious disruption to a
community's functioning, causing widespread
human, material, economic, or environmental
losses that exceed the community's capacity to
cope using its own resources.
It involves hazardous events interacting with
vulnerable conditions. Essentially, a disaster is
an event that causes significant damage and
disruption, beyond what a community can
handle on its own.

7. Serious disruption:
Disasters involve a significant breakdown in the normal
operations of a community or society.
Widespread impact:
The effects of a disaster are felt across a broad area
and affect many people, infrastructure, and the
environment.
Exceeding coping capacity:
A key factor is that the affected community cannot
recover from the event using its own resources.

8. Hazard, exposure, and vulnerability:
Disasters arise when a hazard (e.g., earthquake, flood)
interacts with vulnerable populations and conditions of
exposure.
Types of disasters:
Disasters can be natural (like earthquakes, hurricanes),
man-made (like industrial accidents, war), or
technological (like cyberattacks).