[Solved] Which is not a natural disaster? (2024)

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[Solved] Which is not a natural disaster? ›

The correct answer is Short Circuit Fire. A short circuit fire is not a natural disaster.

Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Nuclear blast. Flood, Earthquake, and Tsunami cyclone, etc are counted as natural calamities. While nuclear explosions occur as a man-made disaster.

The disasters that occur primarily due to the activities of human beings are called man-made disasters. Some examples include polluting the air due to the use of automobiles and oil spills in oceans by ships, etc.

Man-made disasters have an element of human intent, negligence, or error involving a failure of a man-made system, as opposed to natural disasters resulting from natural hazards. Such man-made disasters are crime, arson, civil disorder, terrorism, war, biological/chemical threat, cyber-attacks, etc.

A natural disaster is characterized by the abnormal intensity of a natural agent (flood, mudslide, earthquake, avalanche, drought) when the usual measures to be taken to prevent this damage were not able to prevent their emergence or were not able to be taken.

But it was not a natural disaster. Poor project planning, flawed project design, misplaced priorities, and the destruction of the city's natural flood protection – Louisiana's coastal wetlands, were the root causes of the city's ruin. Each of these causes lies firmly within the hands of man.

A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. Some examples of natural hazard events include: flooding, drought, earthquake, tropical cyclone, lightning, tsunami, volcanic activity, wildfire.

Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission.

Many of these spills can be caused by natural disasters, like earthquakes and hurricanes. Accidents can also cause oils spills and many of these are manmade, such as digging, trenching and mistakes in handling hydrocarbons. When oil spills do occur, the clean up can be difficult and exhausting.

Qatar's location, away from major tectonic plate boundaries and in a climatically stable region, significantly lowers its risk of experiencing severe natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes.

What are non weather related natural disasters? ›

Non-climate-related natural disasters consist primarily of geophysical events (earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis, dry mass movements).

Unlike other extreme weather events that are more sudden, like earthquakes or hurricanes, droughts happen gradually. But they can be just as deadly as other weather hazards—if not more so. Drought has affected more people in the last 40 years than any other natural disaster. The severity of drought worsens over time.

Natural Disasters are catastrophic events that result from any of the Earth's natural phenomena. These can range from floods and hurricanes to tsunamis and earthquakes. The Earth, over its 4.54 billion-year history, has seen many natural disasters.

At present cyclone, drought, earthquake, fire, flood, tsunami, hailstorm, landslide, avalanche, cloudburst, pest attack, frost and cold waves are considered disasters that are covered under the SDRF. This does not include lightning yet.