II.
TYPES OF DISASTER
Tropical Cyclone is a rapidly rotating
storm system characterized by a low-
pressure center, a closed low-level
atmospheric circulation, strong winds,
and a spiral arrangement of
thunderstorms that produce heavy
rain. Depending on its location and
strength
Flood is an overflow of water that
submerges land that is usually dry.
Flooding may occur as an overflow of
water from water bodies, such as a
river, lake, or ocean, in which the
water overtops or breaks levees,
resulting in some of that water
escaping its usual boundaries.
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a
material in the exothermic chemical
process of combustion, releasing heat,
light, and various reaction products.
Fire is hot because the conversion of
the weak double bond in molecular
oxygen, O2, to the stronger bonds in
the combustion products carbon
dioxide and water releases energy
Earthquake is the shaking of the
surface of the Earth, resulting from
the sudden release of energy in the
Earth's lithosphere that creates
seismic waves. Earthquakes can range
in size from those that are so weak
that they cannot be felt to those
violent enough to toss people around
and destroy whole cities
Volcanic Eruption occurs when molten
rock, ash and steam pour through a
vent in the earth's crust. Volcanoes
are described as active (in eruption),
dormant (not erupting at the present
time), or extinct (having ceased
eruption; no longer active). Some
volcanoes explode. Others are slow-
flowing fountains of lava, which is hot
fluid rock.

Astronomical Phenomenon of interest

that involves one or more celestial
objects. Some examples of celestial
events are the cyclical phases of the
Moon, solar and lunar eclipses,
transits and occultations, planetary
oppositions and conjunctions, meteor
showers, and comet flybys.