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A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g. flood, volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide) that affects human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster, and their resilience. This understanding :) is concentrated in the formulation: disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability.A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability, e.g. strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas. The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement. Main article: Natural hazard A natural hazard is a threat of an event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment. Many natural hazards are related, e.g. earthquakes can result in tsunamis, drought can lead directly to famine and disease. A concrete example of the division between hazard and disaster is that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a disaster, whereas earthquakes are a hazard. Hazards are consequently relating to a future occurrence and disasters to past or current occurrences.... Natural disasters Main articles: disaster and list of deadliest natural disasters Land movement disasters Avalanches Avalanche on the backside (East) of Mt. Timpanogos, Utah at Aspen Grove trailNotable avalanches include: The 1910 Wellington avalanche The 1954 Blons avalanches The 1970 Ancash earthquake The 1999 Galtür Avalanche The 2002 Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide Earthquakes An Earthquake is a sudden shaking or vibration of the Earths crust.The vibrations may vary in magnitude. The earthquake has point of origin underground called the focus. The point directly above the focus on the surface is called theepicentre. Earthquakes by themselves rarely kill people or wildlife. It is usu