Natural Disaster

Natural Disasters are a serious disruption resulting from natural processes of Earth that occur over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. They are different from human-made disasters and ecocide.

Philosophy of Natural Disasters

Mexie and Naomi Klein have developed some philosophical points on natural disasters. Arguing that governments and corporations often make the conditions worse by redirecting resources allocated

List of Major Natural Disasters by Region

Multi-Region

• 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora
• 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa
• 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

Caribbean

• 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Western Asia

• 526 Antioch Earthquake

Eastern Asia

• 1556 Shaanxi Earthquake
• 1887 Yellow River Flood
• 1920 Haiyuan Earthquake
• 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake
• 1931 China Floods
• 1935 Yangtze River Flood
• 1975 Typhoon Nina
• 1976 Tangshan Earthquake

Southern Asia

• 1737 Calcutta Cyclone
• 1839 India Cyclone
• 1970 Bhola Cyclone
• 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone