What is natural disaster?
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, lots of collateral damage or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings.
General cause of natural disaster 1. Significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. 2. Extensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods, catastrophic accidents, fires, or explosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life, property and destroy the economic, social and cultural life of people.
Types Of Natural Disaster? 1. Avalanches 2. Earthquakes 3. Volcanic Eruption 4. Tornado 5. Storms
Avalanches 1. An avalanche (also called a snow slide or snow slip) 2. Artificial means something with people not natural 3. Avalanches are most common during winter or spring but glacier movements may cause ice avalanches during summer 4. Avalanches cause loss of life and can destroy settlements, roads, railways and forests 5. The simplest active preventative measure is by repeatedly traveling on a snowpack as snow accumulates; this can be by means of boot-packing, ski-cutting, or machine grooming.
Causes of Avalanches: Most of the time, avalanches are caused by external stress on the snowpack; natural events are not random or spontaneous events.
Earthquakes
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.
Causes of Earthquakes: Tectonic earthquakes occur anywhere in the earth where there is sufficient stored elastic strain energy to drive fracture propagation along a fault plane
Volcanic eruptions
Volcanoes can cause widespread destruction and consequent disaster several ways. The effects include the volcanic eruption itself that may cause harm following the explosion of the volcano or the fall of rock. Second, lava may be