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Natural disasters are happening more often, and having an ever more dramatic impact on the world in terms of both their human and economic costs. While the number of lives lost has declined in the past 20 years - 800,000
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Have a little read: ... Critically examine the view that natural hazards appear to be occurring with increased frequency. For my essay I will looking at different case studies and reasons why it appears that there are more natural disasters as time goes on. There were 497 reported natural disasters - hazards that took a significant human toll - between 1974 and 1978. The last five years have seen 1,897 of them, a nearly three fold increase. Between 1974 and 1978, 195 million people were killed by such disasters or needed emergency aid; there were 1.5 billion such victims in the past five years. The definition of a natural disaster, according to Webster's New Millennium(tm) Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6) is: any event or force of nature that has catastrophic consequences, such as avalanche, earthquake, flood, forest fire, hurricane, lightning, tornado, tsunami, and volcanic eruption. The definition of increased frequency according to The
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