EARTH SCIENCE
NATURAL HAZARDS
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Question
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Natural hazards can cause a variety of problems. Which type of destruction can be caused only by volcanic activity?
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damage from flooding and wind
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erosion of land along coasts and rivers
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sudden crumbling of buildings and chimneys
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areas being covered by ash and concrete-like mudslides
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Natural disasters disrupt people’s lives through displacements, destruction of livelihoods and property, deaths, and injuries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Historically, droughts and floods were the most fatal disaster events. Deaths from these events are now very low – the most deadly events today tend to be earthquakes.
Detailed explanation-3: -They include cyclones, lightning, drought, avalanches, hail storms, tornadoes, floods, heatwaves. They result from the state of Earth’s atmosphere and its interaction with lands and oceans and the weather and climate it produces.
Detailed explanation-4: -Avalanche. Coastal Flooding. Cold Wave. Drought. Earthquake. Hail.
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