Natural calamities are natural events that can result in widespread loss of human life and large-scale damage to life and property. They include natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions, which can occur unexpectedly at any time. Floods specifically refer to overflowing water that causes damage, with the word coming from Old English and related to words for flow and float in other Germanic languages.

1. Natural Calamities
A Natural Calamity is a natural event which
results in wide spread human loss.It causes a
large scale damage to life and property.

2. What are Natural Calamities?
• A Natural Calamity is an event or force of
nature that happens in our earth:-
 Any Time
 Any Day
 Any Week
 Any Year
• Eg.(earthquake,flood,hurricane,lightning,
tornado,tsunami&volcanic eruption)

3. Floods
The word "flood" comes from the Old English flod, a
word common to Germanic languages (compare
German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is
seen in flow, float; also compare with Latin
fluctus, flumen). Deluge myths are mythical stories of
a great flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy
civilization as an act of divine retribution, and are
featured in the mythology of many cultures.