Natural disasters are natural events that cause significant human or matirial losses. They are quérecteraiz by being genereired by necher and by having a serious impact on sosaí- ris. Some natural disasters are earthquakes, volquenic eroptions, and tsunamis.
Another characteristic of natural
disasters is that human beings cannot do anything to prevent them, nor can they influence to reduce their intensity. The only measures that societies can take against these disasters is monitoring and prevention. Natural disasters usually cause great material and economic losses, and many times they also cost the lives of many people.
Natural disasters are caused by
the irruption of an extreme natural phenomenon that negatively affects the population of a certain place. Earthquakes, for example, are produced by a sudden movement of the earth's crust and are usually very difficult to anticipate and predict. For this reason, they often surprise the population, which sometimes does not have time to take the necessary precautionary measures to protect themselves. Other phenomena such as hurricanes or volcanic eruptions usually give more time in advance, and with proper monitoring of their evolution they can be predicted several days in advance.