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    A disaster is defined as a sudden ecological event requiring external assistance. A hazard is a rare or extreme natural or human-made event that causes adverse effects equivalent to a disaster. Vulnerability is the degree of loss caused by a potentially damaging phenomenon and refers to a population's susceptibility to a specific type of event. Risk is the expected losses of lives, injuries, property damage or economic disruption from a particular hazard, and is calculated as the product of a hazard's likelihood and the vulnerabilities it exploits.

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    A disaster is defined as a sudden ecological event requiring external assistance. A hazard is a rare or extreme natural or human-made event that causes adverse effects equivalent to a disaster. Vulnerability is the degree of loss caused by a potentially damaging phenomenon and refers to a population's susceptibility to a specific type of event. Risk is the expected losses of lives, injuries, property damage or economic disruption from a particular hazard, and is calculated as the product of a hazard's likelihood and the vulnerabilities it exploits.

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    A disaster is defined as a sudden ecological event requiring external assistance. A hazard is a rare or extreme natural or human-made event that causes adverse effects equivalent to a disaster. Vulnerability is the degree of loss caused by a potentially damaging phenomenon and refers to a population's susceptibility to a specific type of event. Risk is the expected losses of lives, injuries, property damage or economic disruption from a particular hazard, and is calculated as the product of a hazard's likelihood and the vulnerabilities it exploits.

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    Define disaster, hazard, vulnerability and risk

    The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a disaster as “a sudden ecological


    phenomenon of sufficient magnitude to require external assistance”. Hazard is a rare or extreme
    event in the natural or human made environment that adversely affects human life, property or
    activity to the extent of causing a disaster. Vulnerability: is the degree of loss resulting from a
    potentially damaging phenomenon. It is the susceptibility of a population to specific type of
    event. Risk is the expected losses (lives lost, persons injured, damages to property and disruption
    of economic activity) due to a particular hazard. Risk is the product of hazard and vulnerability.

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