Natural Hazards

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Natural Hazards by Mind Map: Natural Hazards

1. Defintion

1.1. A natural hazard is what is in the line of fire of a natural disaster. Such as the amount of people killed in a Earthquake or the amount of buildings destroyed in a typhoon.

2. Impacts

2.1. The impacts can be devastating with thousands of people dead and thousands of land destroyed.

3. Preventaion

3.1. To prevent a natural hazard is hard because disasters can happen at any moment at any time at anywhere. Scientist build trackers to see if a disaster might strike soon and normally most of people living in the hazardous area will be safe.

4. Protection

4.1. Protection against natural disasters can be difficult because you never know how big or how small it may be. But there are companies that help support when a disaster strikes such as Red Cross.

5. Know Case Studies

5.1. There many cases of acts of Natural Hazards such as Typhoon Hyian or the Tsunami that hit Japan.

6. Location

6.1. The location matters on the environment of where the event struck, here are some non-realistic examples a volcano growing in the middle of the rainforest or a Tsunami hitting the middle east.

7. Causes

7.1. Causes of natural disasters about the changing environment and also is nature changing.