World Disaster Information
A world disaster or catastrophe is an event involving a serious disturbance of public security arose, whereby the lives and health of many people, the environment or material interests seriously threatened or harmed, and that a coordinated deployment of services and organizations of different disciplines is required to counter the threat to eliminate or reduce the harmful effects.
In practice is no strict separation between a crisis and a disaster. By a disaster are many people and agencies involved. That could be the role of a victim, someone who is damaged, rescuer, driver, survivor or otherwise.
In addition, there can be talk of :
- Extensive damage.
- A large affected area.
- A great social impact.
Natural world disaster
includes :
- Landslides
- Earthquakes
- Volcanic eruptions
- Fires
- Hurricanes
- Cyclones
- Flooding
- Tsunamis and other tidal waves
- Epidemics.
A number of very rare events that can lead to a world disaster are:
- Eruption of a super volcano.
- Impacts of a planetoids or comet.
- Hyper nova or supernova of a nearby star.
People induced disaster.
Is a disaster resulting from human activity or human presence. Often this indicates one type of disaster with the term man-made disaster. Examples include humanitarian caused by war, aircraft, train, nuclear accidents and environmental disasters.
Culture disaster
A Culture disaster is a disaster which results that the continuity of a culture seriously affected and that many of the important aspects of a civilization will be lost.
Humanitarian disaster
When a long event disastrous consequences has for large groups of people this is said a humanitarian disaster. This can be the result from human activities or nature.
Disaster plans
A disaster plan is a government or organization described plan and should be applied after the occurrence of a disaster. A control disaster plan is a detailed plan that focuses on a specific disaster. Such as disaster control plan for a Hurricane, or a disaster control plan for earthquakes.
What to do when there is a disaster.