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A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of a combination of both hazards and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability will never become disasters, as is the case in uninhabited regions |
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Examples of well known disasters:
9/11 Estonia Pompeii Great Fire of London Titanic M/S Herald of Free Enterprise Chernobyl |
The world and the history has a lot of disasters, both made natural and manmade, mechanical failure, or something else. And I personally found them very interesting (and don't get me wrong, it's just horrible and very sad), but I like to know as much I can about what happened, how it happened and how people reacted and what they did. I also find it interesting to hear peoples theories and speculations how it happened.
Catastrophes include all kinds natural disasters, like earthquakes, tsunamis, tornados, volcanic eruptions, etc.
So do you have any disasters or catastrophes you found interesting or that moved you especially?