What is the difference between disaster and hazard?

A disaster is a natural or man-made hazard that has come to fruition, resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event with great loss stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods, catastrophic accidents, fires, or explosions.

In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of hazards and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability are not considered a disaster, as is the case in uninhabited regions.

Developing countries suffer the greatest costs when a disaster hits – more than 95 percent of all deaths caused by disasters occur in developing countries, and losses due to natural disasters are 20 times greater (as a percentage of GDP) in developing countries than in industrialized countries.

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A hazard is a situation that poses a level of threat to life, health, property, or environment. Most hazards are dormant or potential, with only a theoretical risk of harm; however, once a hazard becomes "active", it can create an emergency situation. A hazard does not exist when it is not happening. A hazardous situation that has come to pass is called an incident. Hazard and vulnerability interact together to create risk.
 

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A hazard is a situation which poses a level of threat to life, health, property or environment. Most hazards are dormant or potential, with only a theoretical risk of harm, however, once a hazard becomes 'active', it can create an emergency situation.

A disaster is the impact of a natural or human-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment. The root of the word disaster comes from an astrological idea that when the stars are in a bad position a bad event will happen.

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Hazard vs Disaster

• Hazards are natural phenomenon that are a feature of our planet and cannot be prevented.

• These hazards are termed as disasters when they cause widespread destruction of property and human lives.

• We can prevent disasters if we learn to live in harmony with nature and take precautionary steps.



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In my Opinion--- Hazard is when something can lead to a crisis or something bad, but has not yet happened. (you might come across signs saying beware, hazardous site).

Disaster is when something bad has happened and is just a word that we use to describe the after effect of whatever took place.

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Hazard is a natural event while the disaster is its colisequence.

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In passage risk factor at home and neighbourhood
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HAZARD : It is a dangerous condition or events, natural or man-made that could cause injury, loss of life or damage to property, livelihood etc. DISASTER : A disaster is a impact of a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry.A Disaster can bring a permanent change to human societies, ecosystem and environment.
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Natural hazards are geographical events which occur naturally UNDER (earthquakes and volcanoes), ON (floods) or ABOVE (climatic conditions such as droughts and tropical cyclones) the surface of the earth. Things such as droughts, floods, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions and volcanoes regularly happen on a small scale throughout the world. However, if one of these natural hazards leads to – a significant loss of human life and/or – damage to property, and/or – environmental damage,it is called a NATURAL DISASTER. Disasters know no boundaries, and can lead to the loss of thousands of human lives in the areas where they occur.
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I want bibliography of disaster management
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Dis aster is happned naturally and hazard is it is only safe with precautions taken like putting asid into water to dilute it no to put water into asid
Otherwise itis hazard
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Hazard : A hazard is a dangerous situation that carries a threat to humans. Hazards will be considered disaster if they affect humans. For example , the hazards occurs in workshop,shop,etc. any place. Disaster : A disaster is advent that damaged the social,economic and cultural life of people. Disasters will be considered hazard if the volcano explodes and human are not affected. For example, the nuclear accident in Fukushima.
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The difference between disaster and hazard are as follows:
Disaster
It happened naturally.
It occur suddenly.

Hazard
It happened artificially.
It occur occasionally.
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