Associated Press
| Sep 29, 2012
A tornado swept through a fair ground in a Spanish town in Valencia province Saturday, knocking down a Ferris wheel and injuring 35 people. Floods have rocked the same southern part of the country since Friday. As of Saturday, the death toll from ...
Russia Today
| Sep 7, 2012
A series of earthquakes hit rural southwestern China on Friday, collapsing homes and triggering landslides. At least 50 people were killed, and the death toll is expected to rise.
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MBC
| Aug 31, 2012
Hundreds of bluefin tuna became unlikely victims of Typhoon Bolaven when it battered the Korean peninsula earlier this week. A power outage cut electricity at the world's first successful tuna fish farming operation, meaning a vital pump designed ...
ABC News (Australia)
| Aug 29, 2012
Heavy rains in Myanmar (Burma) have forced tens of thousands of people to flee their low-lying homes. The worst-affected areas are in the Ayeyarwady region near the capital Yangon, where homes, businesses, and farmland have been submerged. However...
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ORF
| Feb 10, 2012
On 11 March 2011, Japan's worst ever natural disaster killed almost 20,000 people. This report reveals the controversy surrounding it and the pain of rebuilding under the fear of radioactivity.
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 13, 2012
Iran's government is facing criticism over its response to two earthquakes that killed 306 people. The quakes struck on Saturday afternoon flattening villages near the city of Tabriz and Ahar. Al Jazeera's Soraya Lennie has traveled to a village n...
Associated Press
| Aug 11, 2012
Two strong earthquakes struck northwestern Iran Saturday. According to Iranian state TV, at least 87 people have died, and over 400 more are injured.
NTDTV
| Jul 2, 2012
Many people are salvaging what they can in Bangladesh. Hundreds of homes have been washed away some of the heaviest rain in years has displaced thousands of families and left nearly 100 dead in northern Bangladesh. Villa...
KTN Kenya
| Jun 26, 2012
A deadly landslide in the Bududa district of Uganda buried three villages on Monday evening. Eighteen bodies have been recovered, but scores more are missing and hundreds have been left homeless after heavy rains caused the destruction of three vi...
Associated Press
| Jun 8, 2012
More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands and washing millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, neither the US government nor West Coast states have a clear plan for how to clean up large and potentially toxic f...
— 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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