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What is a natural hazard?
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Asked 12/13/2010 8:31:54 AM
Updated 3/25/2014 11:29:58 PM
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Asked 12/13/2010 8:31:54 AM
Updated 3/25/2014 11:29:58 PM
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A natural hazard is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment.
Examples of natural hazards are earthquakes, forest fires, landslides, volcanos, tsunamis.

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A natural hazard is a potentially damaging process or phenomenon that occurs, or has the potential to occur, in nature. A natural hazard, such as the earthquake (seismic) hazard on Vancouver Island, exists even when no earthquake has actually occurred. When an earthquake happens, it is termed an event.

Examples of natural hazards are earthquakes, forest fires, landslides, volcanos, tsunamis.

Added 12/13/2010 8:58:20 AM
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