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84 lines
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**Natural Disasters** are a serious disruption resulting from natural
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processes of [Earth](Earth "wikilink") that occur over a short or long
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period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or
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environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community
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or society to cope using its own resources. They are different from
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[human-made
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disasters](List_of_Big_Accidents_and_Human-Made_Disasters "wikilink")
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and [ecocide](ecocide "wikilink").
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## Philosophy of Natural Disasters
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[Mexie](Mexie "wikilink") and [Naomi Klein](Naomi_Klein "wikilink") have
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developed some philosophical points on natural disasters. Arguing that
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governments and corporations often make the conditions worse by
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redirecting resources allocated
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## List of Major Natural Disasters by Region
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### Multi-Region
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- [1815 Eruption of Mount
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Tambora](1815_Eruption_of_Mount_Tambora "wikilink")
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- [1883 Eruption of Krakatoa](1883_Eruption_of_Krakatoa "wikilink")
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- [2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and
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Tsunami](2004_Indian_Ocean_Earthquake_and_Tsunami "wikilink")
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### North America
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### Central America
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### Caribbean
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- [2010 Haiti Earthquake](2010_Haiti_Earthquake "wikilink")
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### South America
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### Northern Europe
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### Western Europe
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### Eastern Europe
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### Southern Europe
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### Northern Africa
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### Western Africa
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### Middle Africa
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### Eastern Africa
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### Southern Africa
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### Western Asia
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- [526 Antioch Earthquake](526_Antioch_Earthquake "wikilink")
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### Northern Asia
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### Eastern Asia
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- [1556 Shaanxi Earthquake](1556_Shaanxi_Earthquake "wikilink")
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- [1887 Yellow River Flood](1887_Yellow_River_Flood "wikilink")
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- [1920 Haiyuan Earthquake](1920_Haiyuan_Earthquake "wikilink")
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- [1923 Great Kantō
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Earthquake](1923_Great_Kantō_Earthquake "wikilink")
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- [1931 China Floods](1931_China_Floods "wikilink")
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- [1935 Yangtze River Flood](1935_Yangtze_River_Flood "wikilink")
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- [1975 Typhoon Nina](Typhoon_Nina "wikilink")
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- [1976 Tangshan Earthquake](1976_Tangshan_Earthquake "wikilink")
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### Southern Asia
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- [1737 Calcutta Cyclone](1737_Calcutta_Cyclone "wikilink")
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- [1839 India Cyclone](1839_India_Cyclone "wikilink")
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- [1970 Bhola Cyclone](1970_Bhola_Cyclone "wikilink")
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- [1991 Bangladesh Cyclone](1991_Bangladesh_Cyclone "wikilink")
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### Southeast Asia
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### Oceania
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