EARTH SCIENCE
NATURAL HAZARDS
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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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Detailed explanation-1: -Natural disasters disrupt people’s lives through displacements, destruction of livelihoods and property, deaths, and injuries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Natural hazards are physical phenomena caused by atmospheric, water or tectonic processes that threaten people, property or the environment. They can occur within a short or long period of time.
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: -Study Notes. Natural hazard. Atmospheric hazard. Geophysical hazard. Hydrological hazards. 22-Mar-2021