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our india suffring from many disaster but mast important disaster is natural disaster . natural disaster is the impact of the human causing the wasteage of natural resoures andusing it very widly range becaus of using natural resoures in bulk amount it harmes pur planet as well as our country .the goverment should take action toward those industries which use the natural resoures in wide range. ande give them punishment to them and save our planet from natural disaters. A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide) that affects the environment, and leads to financial, environmental and/or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster, and their resilience.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."[2] A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability, e.g. strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas. The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement.[3] Natural disasters which occur the movement of plate tectonics are earthquakes, volcanoes, geyser eruptions and tsunami.movement disasters

[edit]Avalanches

Avalanche on the backside (East) of Mt. Timpanogos, Utah at Aspen Grove trail
Notable avalanches include:
The 1910 Wellington avalanche
The 1954 Blons avalanches
The 1999 Galtür Avalanche
The 2002 Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide
The 2010 Pacaya Volcano ash disaster
[edit]Earthquakes
Main article: Earthquake
An Earthquake is a sudden shake of the Earth's crust caused by the tectonic plates colliding.The vibrations may vary in magnitude. The underground point of origin of the earthquake is called the "focus". The point directly above the focus on the surface is called the"epicenter". Earthquakes by themselves rarely kill

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