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  2. Degg's Model - Wikipedia

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    The Degg's Model shows that a natural disaster only occurs if a vulnerable population is exposed to a hazard. [1] It was devised in 1992 by Martin Degg, [2] head of the geography department at the University of Chester, in England. It also depends on how far people are from the epicentre of an earthquake, volcano, or any other natural tectonic ...

  3. Catastrophe modeling - Wikipedia

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    Natural catastrophes (sometimes referred to as "nat cat") [2] that are modeled include: Hurricane (main peril is wind damage; some models can also include storm surge and rainfall) Earthquake (main peril is ground shaking; some models can also include tsunami, fire following earthquakes, liquefaction, landslide, and sprinkler leakage damage)

  4. Hazard - Wikipedia

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    A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. The term "disaster" itself is defined as follows: "Disasters are serious disruptions to the functioning of a community that exceed its capacity to cope using its own resources. Disasters can be caused by natural, man-made and ...

  5. HAZUS - Wikipedia

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    Hazus can be used in the assessment step in the mitigation planning process, which is the foundation for a community's long-term strategy to reduce disaster losses and break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction and repeated damage. Being ready helps recovery after a natural disaster.

  6. Natural disaster - Wikipedia

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    A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. The term "disaster" itself is defined as follows: "Disasters are serious disruptions to the functioning of a community that exceed its capacity to cope using its own resources.

  7. Disaster - Wikipedia

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    A disaster is a result of a natural or human-made hazard impacting a vulnerable community. It is the combination of the hazard along with exposure of a vulnerable society that results in a disaster. In modern times, the line between natural and human-made disasters is difficult to draw. In fact, the term natural disaster was called a misnomer ...

  8. Read the Transcript of Trump's Person of the Year Interview - AOL

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    Isn't that the textbook definition of a conflict of interest? I think that Elon puts the country long before his company. I mean, he's in a lot of companies, but he really is, and I've seen it.

  9. Venn diagram - Wikipedia

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    A Venn diagram is a widely used diagram style that shows the logical relation between sets, popularized by John Venn (1834–1923) in the 1880s. The diagrams are used to teach elementary set theory, and to illustrate simple set relationships in probability, logic, statistics, linguistics and computer science.