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A blossary on naturally occurring hazards and disasters.

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A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass ...

Domain: Events; Category: Disasters

Volcanoes can cause widespread destruction and consequent disaster in several ways. The effects include the volcanic eruption itself that may cause harm following the explosion of the volcano or the ...

Domain: Events; Category: Disasters

A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake. Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their ...

Domain: Events; Category: Disasters

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly-rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain. In addition to strong ...

Domain: Events; Category: Disasters

A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is also ...

Domain: Events; Category: Disasters

Mass wasting, also known as slope movement or mass movement, is the geomorphic process by which soil, sand, regolith, and rock move downslope typically as a mass, largely under the force of gravity, ...

Domain: Events; Category: Disasters

A limnic eruption occurs when a gas, usually CO2, suddenly erupts from deep lake water, posing the threat of suffocating wildlife, livestock and humans. Such an eruption may also cause tsunamis in ...

Domain: Events; Category: Disasters

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