This document discusses natural disasters and defines them as huge losses caused by natural phenomena like earthquakes, floods, landslides, deforestation and pollution. It lists specific natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, flooding, mudslides, wildfires, tropical storms and changes in temperature or glacial levels. Forest fires are defined as uncontrolled fires affecting vegetation not intended for burning. Statistics show some countries like Italy, Japan, China, the US and France face frequent, damaging natural disasters like floods, storms and tornadoes each year resulting in thousands of deaths.
2. What is a natural disaster?
Natural disaster refers to the huge material and human
losses, [citation needed] caused by events or natural phenomena
such as earthquakes, floods, landslides of
land, deforestation, pollution and others
3. What are the different Natural disasters?
Volcanic eruptions Tornadoes
Earthquakes Hurricanes
Tsunamis tsunami Typhoons
Flooding Destruction of the ozone
Mudslides drought Layer
Wildfire Drastic changes of
Tropical storms temperature
Reduction of glaciers source
4. HURIACANE
The wind, turn into disaster when they exceed a normal
limit, usually measured by a parameter. This varies depending
on the type of phenomenon, and can be the magnitude
5. FOREST FIRE
A forest fire is the fire that extends without control in forest land and
affecting vegetable fuels. It can also be defined as: the fire that expands
without control on tree, shrubs, bushes or herbaceous species, provided
that they are not features of the agricultural crop or are subject to the
same and have no qualification of urban land, affecting the vegetation
that was not intended for burning.
6. •the danger of nature is more frequent and damaging.
The danger of nature is more
frequent and damaging.
PAIS % Hig risk Disaster
Italy area
Japan Italy 18 Flood
Japan 23 Flood
China China 25 Storm
United States U.S.A. 29 Tornado
France 48 Storm
France