Definitions for disasters
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1. disasters

   A disaster is a serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. Disasters are routinely divided into either "natural disasters" caused by natural hazards or "human-instigated disasters" caused from anthropogenic hazards. However, in modern times, the divide between natural, human-made and human-accelerated disasters is difficult to draw.Examples of natural hazards include avalanches, flooding, cold waves and heat waves, droughts, earthquakes, cyclones, landslides, lightning, tsunamis, volcanic activity, wildfires, and winter precipitation. Examples of anthropogenic hazards include criminality, civil disorder, terrorism, war, industrial hazards, engineering hazards, power outages, fire, hazards caused by transportation, and environmental hazards. Developing countries suffer the greatest costs when a disaster hits – more than 95% of all deaths caused by hazards occur in developing countries, and losses due to natural hazards are 20 times greater (as a percentage of gross domestic product) in developing countries than in industrialized countries.

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1. Disasters

   Calamities producing great damage, loss of life, and distress. They include results of natural phenomena and man-made phenomena. Normal conditions of existence are disrupted and the level of impact exceeds the capacity of the hazard-affected community.

How to pronounce disasters?

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of disasters in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of disasters in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of disasters in a Sentence

1. James Elliott:

   If you look at disasters across the country over recent decades, there's almost always stuff going on simultaneously, but what's changed is the intensity of impact, in part due to climate change but also due to increased development in harm's way, so the way to improve is to think about long-term solutions to these long-term problems.

2. John Horowitz:

   It's well-known that patients quite frequently get Takotsubo syndrome at times of extreme stress or during natural disasters, but there are problems with the way the study was designed. I don't believe all of these cases are Takotsubo. It's as simple as that.

3. Edwin Lyman:

   Nuclear plants must be protected against the most severe natural disasters they could face today - not those estimated 40 years ago.

4. Adam Smith:

   What's concerning about National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is it's yet another year in a series of years where we have both a high frequency, high cost and a large diversity of these extreme events that affect people's lives and livelihoods, over the last five years, the United States has experienced almost $ 750 billion of damages from these billion-dollar disasters, which is really off the charts.

5. Lizzie Litzow:

   That is a completely misleading statement about the detailed contracting work FEMA does during times of disasters, in fact, FEMA awarded more than $ 3.9 billion dollars in contracts supporting response and recovery efforts for the 2017 hurricane season, with the agency canceling just three contracts. Those three companies did not meet their contract requirements when they were unable to meet the required delivery dates.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disasters