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natural disaster

Also known as natural calamity, natural hazard, natural disasters, natural hazards, cataclysm

major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth, which may cause loss of life or property

AI overview

A natural disaster is a major harmful event caused by natural Earth processes—like earthquakes, hurricanes, or floods—that can result in loss of life and property damage. Understanding and preparing for natural disasters matters because they affect communities' safety, resources, and ability to recover.

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Research

46,670 papers

Natural disaster and medication preparedness among elderly: a scoping review.F1000Research · 2024
Impact of natural disaster on oral health: A scoping review.Medicine · 2023
Researching natural disaster preparedness through health behavioral change models.American journal of disaster medicine · 2019
Natural disasters and mental health.International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2022
Natural disaster-induced dementia and cognitive decline: A meta-analysis and systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025

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topic's main category: Category:Natural disasters
Commons category: Natural disasters
on focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Climate change
topic has template: Template:Natural disasters
manifestation of: natural risk
P8168: Sawyer
has cause: global warming
handled, mitigated, or managed by: disaster preparedness

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Encyclopedic overview

Economic loss risk for six natural disasters: tropical cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes.

A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community brought by a natural phenomenon or hazard. Some examples of natural hazards include avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, landslides - including submarine landslides, tropical cyclones, volcanic activity and wildfires. Additional natural hazards include blizzards, dust storms, firestorms, hails, ice storms, sinkholes, thunderstorms, tornadoes and tsunamis.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “natural disaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.