Flood, Earthquake and Land Slides
Flood
Disasters are either natural, such as floods, droughts, cyclones and earthquakes, or human-made such as riots, conflicts and others like fire, epidemic, industrial accidents and environmental fallouts. Globally, natural disasters account for nearly 80% of all disaster affected people. According to the insurance company estimates, natural disasters represent 85% of insured catastrophe losses. If one adds the losses in countries like India, where most of the property of the people, especially in the rural areas remains uninsured, the losses are astronomical.
Earthquake
Earthquakes are one of the most destructive of natural hazards. Earthquake occurs due to sudden transient motion of the ground as a result of release of elastic energy in a matter of few seconds. The impact of the event is most traumatic because it affects large area, occurs all on a sudden and unpredictable. They can cause large scale loss of life and property and disrupts essential services such as water supply, sewerage systems, communication and power, transport etc. They not only destroy villages, towns and cities but the aftermath leads to destabilize the economic and social structure of the nation.
