Tuesday September 1, 2015

The Distinguishing characteristics of Disasters, Catastrophes and Natural hazards. 

A Disaster or a Catastrophe is a force that causes a significant amount of damage to an area, causing deaths and pulling in government resources such as the Coast Guard, the Red Cross or simply covering the cost to rebuild the damaged area. Disasters and catastrophes, a majority of the time have fatalities. Take for example Hurricane Irene took eight lives and caused $800 million dollars worth of damage. A Natural Hazard is an event that puts a human life at risk but may not necessarily hurt them unless they are in the way of the Hazard taking place. An earthquake for example can possibly hurt a person but if the person takes steps to be out of harms way they wont sustain physical damage to themselves maybe just to their living quarters. An earthquake is just a re-ocurring cycle of the Earth.