Al Jazeera English
| Apr 22, 2013
Earthquake victims in remote villages in southwest China say they have been forgotten by the government and are desperate for aid. They are afraid that aftershocks will destroy what little they have left. Al Jazeera's Rob McBride reports fro...
Euronews
| Apr 21, 2013
Chinese state media has shown images of the country's Premier, Li Keqiang, visiting the victims of the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck the mostly rural and mountainous region to the southwest of t...
Euronews
| Apr 20, 2013
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake has struck China's southwestern Sichuan province. Reports suggest that scores of people have been killed and over 2,000 injured. The quake was felt in neighboring provinces causing people to flee buildings in search of s...
Press TV
| Apr 9, 2013
A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale has struck the town of Kaki near the southern Iranian city of Bushehr, killing at least 32 people and leaving more than 850 injured. But Iran's Press TV reports that the Bushehr nuclear facili...
Euronews
| Jan 27, 2013
A mother and child have been rescued as flooding continues to wreak havoc across Australia. The pair became trapped in fast-rising waters in Bundaberg in the state of Queensland, but emergency workers managed to airlift them to safety. In a separa...
Associated Press
| Jan 19, 2013
Cooler weather has brought help to Australian fire fighters battling bushfires across the south east of the country. More than a hundred and twenty fires are still burning, with more than two dozen still out of control, local media reported.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Jan 6, 2013
Police look through the burnt out remains of houses as bushfires continue to spread throughout the Australian state of Tasmania. Tasmania's police commissioner said he feared lives may have been lost in the wildfires which swept through parts of t...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 11, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of people are fighting for survival in the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha. The Philippine government is pleading for help from the private sector and the international community, with the situation there described as a race agai...
Euronews
| Dec 9, 2012
As rescuers in the Philippines continue to find bodies in the devastation brought by Typhoon Bopha a little over a week ago, forecasters say the storm is heading back, this time to the north. Officials list 540 dead, over 850 still missing, and sa...
Euronews
| Dec 6, 2012
Typhoon Bopha is now the deadliest storm to have hit the Philippines this year, with at least 500 people dead and hundreds more missing in remote areas of Mindanao island hit by mudslides. The disaster has left hundreds of thousands homeless and t...
— May 20 at 01:52 am
...Just one years ago, we witnessed people have become homeless, injured and lost properties. Natural disaster, unlike Terrorism, can happen anytim...
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to recover.
An adverse event will not rise to the level of a disaster if it occurs in an area without vulnerable population. In a vulnerable area, however, such as San Francisco, an earthquake can have disastrous consequences and leave lasting damage, requiring years to repair.
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