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Natural disaster

Natural disaster. Martin Pros, C4B. Content. Hydrological disasters Meteorological disasters Wildfires Health disasters. Hydrological disaster. Floods. Tsunami. is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. can be caused by undersea earthquakes or by landslides.

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Natural disaster

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  1. Natural disaster Martin Pros, C4B

  2. Content • Hydrological disasters • Meteorological disasters • Wildfires • Health disasters

  3. Hydrological disaster Floods Tsunami • is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land • can be caused by undersea earthquakesor by landslides

  4. Meteorologicaldisasters Blizzards Cyclonicstorms • are severe winter storms characterized by heavy snow and strong winds • Cyclone, tropical cyclone, hurricane, and typhoon are different names for the same phenomenon a cyclonic storm system that forms over the oceans

  5. Droughts Hailstorms • is unusual dryness of soil • are falls of rain drops that arrive as ice

  6. Tornados • is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud

  7. Wildfires • are large fires which often start in wildland areas

  8. Epidemics • is an outbreak of a contractible disease that spreads through a human population • The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, killing an estimated 50 million people worldwide • The 1957-58 Asian flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 1 million people • The 1968-69 Hong Kong water flu pandemic • The AIDS pandemic, beginning in 1959

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