Natural Hazards - Geo

• Natural disaster


  • Natural process which can cause death, injury or disruption to humans or property and possessions
• Types of natural hazard

  • Geological
  • Meteorological
• Immediate impacts of natural disasters


  1. Building and road destruction

  2. Deaths and injured

  3. Crops and water supplies damaged
• Secondary effects of natural disasters

  1. Country's economy weakened

  2. Lack of clean water leading to spreading diseases
• Immediate responses to natural disasters

  1. Evacuate people

  2. Provide temporary food and water supplies

  3. Treat the injured
• Long-term responses to natural disasters

  1. Repair buildings and roads

  2. Improve forecasting
• A natural hazard is a natural process which can cause death, injury or disruption to humans or property and possessions
• A natural disaster is a natural hazard that has already happened
• What is a natural disaster

  A natural hazard that already happened
• What is a natural hazard

  Natural process that can cause death injury, destruction to humans and properties