EARTH SCIENCE
NATURAL HAZARDS
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a natural hazard is always a natural disaster but natural disasters do not cause harm to humans while natural hazards do
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a natural disaster is always a natural hazard but natural disasters do not cause harm to humans while natural hazards do
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a natural disaster is sometimes a natural hazard but natural disasters do not cause harm to humans while natural hazards do
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a natural hazard is sometimes a natural disaster but natural disasters do not cause harm to humans while natural hazards do
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Detailed explanation-1: -Natural hazards and natural disasters are related but are not the same. A natural hazard is the threat of an event that will likely have a negative impact. A natural disaster is the negative impact following an actual occurrence of natural hazard in the event that it significantly harms a community.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hazard is an event that has potential for causing injury/ loss of life or damage to property/environment. Disaster is an event that occurs suddenly/unexpectedly in most cases and disrupts the normal course of life in affected area. It results in loss or damage to life, property or environment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Disaster risk is therefore considered as the combination of the severity and frequency of a hazard, the numbers of people and assets exposed to the hazard, and their vulnerability to damage.
Detailed explanation-4: -A hazard become a disaster when the potential to cause destruction is fulfilled. When there is harm to life and property of humans, the hazard is termed a disaster. All disasters are hazards, but all hazards are not disasters. Hazards do not necessarily cause any destruction.
Detailed explanation-5: -A hazard is any unusual event that has a potential to threaten people’s lives, their property and livelihoods. For example, typhoons, floods and fire are hazards. A hazard becomes a disaster when it happens where many people are living or have their livelihoods and causes damage to them and their property.