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Monday, 1 February 2016

Define and classify different types of natural hazard (climatic, tectonic).

Hazard: an event resulting from environmental processes that threatens or actually causes damage and destruction to people their property and settlements.

Natural disaster: when a hazard causes serious damage and destruction.

If there were no people, there would be no hazards because hazards, in this context, means hazards to people

Geological
Climatic
Biological
Technological
Earthquakes
Storms
Fires
Nuclear explosion
Volcanic eruptions
Floods
Pests
Accidents
Landslides
Drought
Diseases
Pollution
Some hazards have human causes or are made more hazardous by human activity         
  •  e.g Diseases- some diseases can be caused and spread by humans due to us polluting our environment. This results in dirty water and causes waterborne diseases such as cholera.
Hazards can sometimes combine to create events                                                                           
  • e.g lava from a volcanic eruption can block a river which causes a flood or tsunamis associated with earthquakes

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