Disaster (from Middle French désastre, from Old Italian disastro, from Latin pejorative prefix dis- bad + astrum star) is the impact of a natural or man-made hazard that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and the environment. Disasters manifest as hazards exacerbating vulnerable conditions and exceeding individuals' and communities' means to survive and thrive. The word's roots is from astrology and imply that when the stars are in a bad position, a bad event is about to happen. Disasters can be split up into two major categories—natural disasters and man-made disasters. - A natural disaster is the consequence of the combination of a natural hazard (a physical event e.g. volcanic eruption, earthquake, storm, flood, drought, fire, etc) and human activities. Human vulnerability, sometimes including the lack of appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, structural, and human losses.
- A man-made disaster is a disaster that is accidentally or intentionally created by humans. Examples of man-made disasters include explosions, pollution, terrorist incidents, shipwrecks, stampedes, industrial incidents, climate changes, wars, etc.
Selected December anniversary  WikiProject: Disaster management
Here are some disasters related tasks you can do: - Improve: Ramstein airshow disaster, Emergency management, Canal Hotel bombing, Threat of the Dnieper reservoirs, I-35W Mississippi River bridge, Boys in Red Tragedy
- Expand: Disaster response, Stampede, Bambi bucket, Environmental hazard, Environmental disaster, 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, 1920 Gansu earthquake, 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake, 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire
- Create: Vulnerability (Society) see Vulnerability, Hazard (Society) see Natural hazard, 2000 Pingxiang steel plant oxygen generator explosion see bottom of [1].
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. |
