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 disasterdisastnature

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:supernova

  • 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.

  • By a big fire.
  • Terrorist attack.
  • Traffic disaster.
  • Collapse danger.

You can read here what to do by these disasters.

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