Natural hazard
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A natural hazard is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment. Many natural hazards are interrelated, e.g. earthquakes can cause tsunamis and drought can lead directly to famine or population displacement. It is possible that some natural hazards are intertermporally correlated, as well. A concrete example of the division between a natural hazard and a natural disaster is that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a disaster, whereas living on a fault line is a hazard.
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See also
- Act of God
- Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth
- List of environmental disasters
- Ten Threats identified by the United Nations
- Emergency management
- Geohazard
- Hazard
- Civil defense
- Disaster relief
- Disaster risk reduction
- Standardized Natural Hazards Disclosure Statement
- Social vulnerability
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