3. A natural disaster is the effect of the earth's natural
hazards, for example flood, earthquake or landslide.
They can lead to financial, environmental or human
losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability
of the affected population to resist the hazard.
If these disasters continue it would be a great danger
for the earth.
10. Forest Fire or Bushfire
Fires can burn out of control in areas of forest or
bush land. Fires are caused by lightning, sparks
of electricity or careless people. Wind may blow a
bushfire to areas where people live.
11.
12. 16 june2013 : Flood in uttrakhand (kedarnath region )
12 Jan 2010 : Earthquakethat hit Haiti'scapital city Port au Prince,
effected morethan 3 million people.
26 Dec 2004 : Tsunami hit Sumatracoast in theIndian ocean. Almost
250,000 died, produced by an underwater earthquakewith apower of 9.1
on theRichter'sscale.
August 2005 : Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleansand theGulf of
Mexico. Sixth strongest and fifth most destroyablehurricanekilled 1800
peopleand completely erased New Orleansfrom themap.
8 Oct 2005 : An earthquakelocated near theIndia-Pakistan border took
86.000 lives. It destroyed 600.000 homesand made3 million people
homeless.
12 May 2008 : An earthquakewith 7.9 Magnitudekilled 69.000 peoplein
Sichuan Provincein China. Theearthquakemadedamageestimated 85
billion dollars.
13. Natural disastersarenot incapableof being guarded
against. Themodern technology hasgiven enough
gadgetsto peoplefor forecasting, and lessening
heavy damages. Only requirement isthat people
must takeinterest in getting awareness about the
safeguard measures. It isalso important to seethat
we do not contributeto natural disastersby polluting
theenvironment and by not living in resonancewith
nature.
