2.  Introd uction
 Types
 Earthquake
 H urricane
 Tornad os
 Tsunam is
 Volcano
 Recent N ews
 N atural disasters in last 20 years
 C onclusion

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.

4. Types Of NaTural DisasTers

5. earTHQuaKe

12.  1 2 Jan 201 0 : Earthquake that hit H aiti's capital city Port au Prince,
effected m ore than 3 m illion people.
 26 D ec 2004 : Tsunam i hit Sum atra coast in the Ind ian ocean. Alm ost
250,000 d ied , prod uced by an und erwater earthquake with a power of 9.1
on the Richter's scale.
 August 2005 : H urricane K atrina hit N ew O rleans and the Gulf of
M exico. Sixth strongest and fifth m ost d estroyable hurricane killed 1 800
people and com pletely erased N ew O rleans from the m ap.
 8 O ct 2005 : An earthquake located near the Ind ia-Pakistan bord er took
86.000 lives. It d estroyed 600.000 hom es and m ad e 3 m illion people
hom eless.
 1 2 M ay 2008 : An earthquake with 7.9 M agnitud e killed 69.000 people
in Sichuan Province in C hina. The earthquake m ad e d am age estim ated
85 billion d ollars.

13. N atural d isasters are not incapable of being guarded
against. The m od ern technology has given enough
gad gets to people for forecasting, and lessening
heavy d am ages. O nly requirem ent is that people
m ust take interest in getting awareness about the
safeguard m easures. It is also im portant to see that
we do not contribute to natural d isasters by polluting
the environm ent and by not living in resonance with
nature.