TYPES OF DISASTERS

DISASTERS
The word disasters originated from french word disastrae, in which dis means bad and astrae means star thus it terms badstar. An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.

Disasters are classified into 2 types

Natural disasters Anthropogenic disasters

NATURAL DISASTERS
DIMENSIONS OF NATURAL DISASTERS Meteorological disasters Typological disasters Telluric and tectonic disasters Biological disasters Health and diseases disasters Fire disasters Space disasters

METEOROLOGICAL DISASTER

The Meteorological disasters are caused by extreme weather, e.g. rain, drought, snow, extreme heat or cold, ice, or wind.

TYPOLOGICAL DISASTER

The typological disaster deals with landslides, avalanche, flood.

TELLURIC AND TECTONIC DISASTER

The telluric and tectonic disaster are also known as geological disaster, which includes earthquakes, volcanoes, volcanic eruptions, and epidemic of communicable disasters.

BIOLOGICAL DISASTER

The biological disasters is mainly caused by biological agents, such as anthrax, small pox, plague, botulism, tularemia.

HEALTH AND DISEASE DISASTER

The disaster caused by large number of infection agents like virus, bacteria is termed as health and disease disasters.

FIRE DISASTER
The fire disaster is the disaster, which mainly deals with the Bush fires, forest fires, and mine fires were generally started by lightning. They can burn thousands of square kilometers. If a fire intensifies enough to produce its own winds and "weather", it will form into a firestorm.

SPACE DISASTER

The disaster which makes some drastic change in the galaxy or space calamities are termed as space disasters.

ANTHROPOGENIC DISASTERS
DIMENSIONS OF ANTHROPOGENIC DISASTERS Civil disaster Conventional warfare Non conventional warfare Refugees Accident Technological accident

CIVIL DISASTER
Civil disaster is a broad term that is typically used by law enforcement to describe forms of disturbance. Although civil disaster does not necessarily escalate in all cases, the event may escalate into general chaos.

CONVENTIONAL WARFARE
Conventional warfare is a form of warfare conducted by using conventional military weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states in open confrontation. World war is one of the major factor in conventional warfare.

NON CONVENTIONAL WARFARE

Unconventional warfare is the opposite of conventional warfare. Where conventional warfare is used to reduce an opponent's military capability, unconventional warfare is an attempt to achieve military victory through acquiescence, capitulation, or clandestine support for one side of an existing conflict. Terrorism is one of the main factor in non conventional warfare.

REFUGEES
a refugee is a person who "owing to a wellfounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country"

ACCIDENTS
An accident is a specific, unexpected, unusual and unintended external action which occurs in a particular time and place, with no apparent and deliberate cause but with marked effects.

TECHNOLOGICAL ACCIDENTS

A technology-caused disaster is the breakdown of a technological system due to human action which could result in harm to people and all creation.