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  2. Template:Natural disasters - Wikipedia

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    It can be transcluded on pages by placing {{Natural disasters}} below the standard article appendices. Initial visibility This template's initial visibility currently defaults to autocollapse , meaning that if there is another collapsible item on the page (a navbox, sidebar , or table with the collapsible attribute ), it is hidden apart from ...

  3. Disaster - Wikipedia

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    A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event. Some examples of natural hazard events include avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, landslides - including submarine landslides, tropical cyclones, volcanic activity and wildfires. [19]

  4. 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)

  5. Category:Natural disasters templates - Wikipedia

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    [[Category:Natural disasters templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Natural disasters templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.

  6. Dam failure - Wikipedia

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    The reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam on June 5, 1976 Ruins of the dam of Vega de Tera (Spain) after breaking in 1959. A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. [1]

  7. Disaster risk reduction - Wikipedia

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    The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is a multi-donor partnership supporting low and middle-income countries in managing paired risks of natural hazards and climate change. Between 2007 and 2022, GFDRR provided $890 million in technical assistance, analytics, and capacity building support to more than 157 countries.

  8. Category:Natural disasters by country - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Category: Natural disasters by country.

  9. Category:Natural disasters - Wikipedia

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    This category is for articles about historic impacts of natural hazards. Natural disasters, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are caused by the phenomena found in Category:Natural hazards, like earthquakes.