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Man Made Disasters

Man-made disasters can be both intentional and unintentional, resulting in huge loss of life and property. They affect mental, physical, and social well-being. Examples include chemical disasters, nuclear accidents, terrorism, and radiological emergencies. Natural disasters occur due to imbalances in the environment, though human activities can increase their frequency and severity. Tsunamis and tornadoes are two specific types of natural disasters described.

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Man Made Disasters

Man-made disasters can be both intentional and unintentional, resulting in huge loss of life and property. They affect mental, physical, and social well-being. Examples include chemical disasters, nuclear accidents, terrorism, and radiological emergencies. Natural disasters occur due to imbalances in the environment, though human activities can increase their frequency and severity. Tsunamis and tornadoes are two specific types of natural disasters described.

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Man made disasters

A man-made disasters is a disaster resulting from human


intent, negligence, or error.Manmade disasters can be
both intentional and unintentional. It results in huge loss
of life and property. It further affects a person's mental,
physical and social well-being
Chemical disasters
• Do not panic, evacuate calmly and quickly perpendicular to wind direction
through the designated escape route
• Keep a wet handkerchief or piece of cloth/ sari on face during evacuation
• Do not consume the uncovered food/ water etc open to the air, drink only
from bottle
• Provide correct and accurate information to government official.
• Inform others on occurrence of event at public gathering places (like
school, shopping centre, theatre etc.).
• Don't pay attention to the rumours and don't spread rumours.
Nuclear accidents
• One should not look at the fire as it causes
instant blindness.
• Close all doors and windows as radioactivity
does not penetrate into solid structures.
• Cover all food and water.
Effects of disasters
• The disasters has only caused loss to life and
property, the animals face the threat of
extinction, good yielding land turns into a
waste land humans suffer from severe
ailments every where there is a health
problem.
Example of man made disaster
• London smog
• The Al-Mishraq Fire
• The Nuclear Power Plant Explosion in
Chernobyl
• The Kuwait Oil Fires* The Destruction of the
Aral Sea
Terrorism
• Terrorism is the use of fear and acts of violence in order to
intimidate societies or governments. Many different types of social
or political organizations might use terrorism to try to achieve their
goals. People who do terrorism are called terrorists.
• It is difficult to explain terrorism. Terrorism has no official criminal
law definition at the international level. Common definitions of
terrorism refer to violent acts which are intended to create fear
(terror); are done for a religious, political, or ideological goal; and
which target civilians. Some definitions now include acts of unlawful
violence and war. The use of similar tactics by criminal gangs is not
usually called terrorism, though these same actions may be called
terrorism when done by a politically motivated group.
Radiological emergencies
• Radiological emergenciesTake cover yourself Keep your condition till the
flash, hot air, and flying and falling debris
• Be aware of intense flash-light coming from the explosion of a
nuclearweapon.
• Then, head urgently for the nearest shelter without panic. You have 30-60
min before you reach the shelter.
• Protect your mouth and nose with swab/cloth etc.
• You must wash your hands, face, hairs, and other uncovered part of
yourbody.
• Take the necessary equipment with you and enter the shelter.
Examples of man made disaster
Man made disasters can be the following:
• Nuclear disaster
• Chemical disasters
• Radiological emergencies
• Terrorism
Causes of natural disaster
• The causes of natural disasters are many. Human activities play
a role in the frequency and severity of disasters. A natural
disaster is a disruption in the balance of the environment. The
human factor raises the cost, in both property damage and loss
of life. Understanding the causes of natural disaster can provide
clues to their prevention.
• Not all natural disasters can be prevented. Each natural disaster
has its own factors and complications. Understanding the basic
principles of ecology can provide keys to lessening their effects.
Nature evolved with natural disasters and disturbance. The best
prevention is looking at the strategies found in nature.
Tsunami
• A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large
volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes,
volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions landslides, glacier calvings,
meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the
potential to generate a tsunami.
• Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is
far longer. Rather thanappearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead
initially resemble a rapidly rising tide. Tsunamis generallyconsist of a series of
waves with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "wave
train".Wave heights of tens of metres can be generated by large events.
Although the impact of tsunamis is limited tocoastal areas, their destructive
power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004
IndianOcean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human
history with at least 290,000 people killed ormissing in 14 countries bordering
the Indian Ocean.
Tornadoes
A tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending
from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent
tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction
with wind speeds of up to 300 mph. They can destroy
large buildings, uproot trees and hurl vehicles
hundreds of yards. They can also drive straw into
trees. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile
wide to 50 miles long. In an average year, 1000
tornadoes are reported nation wide. Most tornadoes
form from thunderstorms.

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