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    A disaster is an event that causes serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment, and the affected community cannot handle it alone...
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  • Thumbnail for List of natural disasters by death toll
    A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the...
    65 KB (2,839 words) - 12:01, 7 November 2024
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    A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event. Some examples of natural hazard events include avalanches...
    62 KB (9,033 words) - 12:20, 9 November 2024
  • also conducts research on geology, mineral resources, and geological hazards. The CGS is responsible for publishing geological maps, reports, and other...
    24 KB (2,889 words) - 01:31, 7 December 2023
  • warnings to maritime shipping. Upon the onset of a meteorological or geological disaster that would pose a danger to shipping lanes, warnings are issued within...
    7 KB (732 words) - 07:21, 22 May 2024
  • warning about volcanoes within the Indonesian region of responsibility and geological hazard mitigation. The full official Indonesian name is the Pusat Vulkanologi...
    6 KB (412 words) - 15:47, 24 July 2023
  • The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh...
    90 KB (11,213 words) - 02:09, 9 November 2024
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    column of ash and smoke according to the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation's (PVMBG) magma volcanic activity report, which also said...
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    The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that...
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    Emergency population warning (category Disaster preparedness)
    hurricanes, and ice storms. Geological disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Industrial disasters such as the release of...
    21 KB (2,621 words) - 06:32, 25 October 2024
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    some evidence that geological disasters do more economic harm than climate-related disasters, in the long term. Geological disasters, such as landslides...
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    the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century, and the worst tsunami disaster in history. It is also the worst natural disaster in the history of Indonesia...
    176 KB (18,796 words) - 07:57, 6 November 2024
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    IV Inspectorate V Geological Agency Center for Mineral Resources, Coal, and Geothermal Center for Vulcanology and Geological Disaster Management Research...
    37 KB (1,047 words) - 22:15, 31 October 2024
  • Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor. It involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological...
    57 KB (6,376 words) - 19:13, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aberfan Disaster Tribunal
    the time of the disaster, the inquiry concluded that they were not a contributory factor in the fatal slide: "Owing to the geological and geographical...
    22 KB (2,764 words) - 14:32, 6 March 2024
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    Hazard map (category Disaster stubs)
    the dangers they might face from natural disasters in a specific area. Natural Disasters Geological disasters Avalanches and landslides Earthquakes (See...
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    when a research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. The...
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  • also refer to: Disaster (film), a 1948 drama film directed by William H. Pine "Disaster" (Dave song) "Disaster" (JoJo song), 2011 "Disaster" (Star Trek:...
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    P.E., R.G., Karl F. Hasselmann Missouri Chair in Geological Engineering, Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering and professor at Missouri University...
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  • what the reasons are for so many bodies in one location, such as a geological disaster or a ritual sacrifice, a plague is also considered as a hypothesis...
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