common natural disasters. their origin or formation, level of damage and control measures.the?
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the united nations' international strategy for disaster reduction website publishes good information on disasters
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A Disaster recovery plan covers the data, hardware and software critical for a business to restart operations in the event of a natural or human-caused disaster. It should also include plans for coping with the unexpected or sudden loss of key personnel, although this is not covered in this article, the focus of which is data protection.\n\nThere are many different risks that can negatively impact the normal operations of an organization. A risk assessment should be performed to figure out what constitutes a disaster and which risks a specific company is susceptible to, including:\n\nNatural disasters \nFire \nPower failure \nTerrorist attacks \nOrganized or deliberate disruptions \nSystem and/or equipment failures \nHuman error \nComputer viruses \nLegal issues \nWorker strikes
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wind damage for some distance inland with most of the damage close to shore.  The storm surge can tear down buildings and drag them to the sea and it can wash large amount of beach out to sea (extreme erosion).  The rainfall can cause flooding in low lieing areas.\n\nIt depends on the category of the storm (1 being weakest wind, 5 being strongest), how close to shore you are, the geography of the region, the preparedness of the region hit (places that are hit often have building codes that minimize damage) and how slow the storm is moving.  A hurricane that decides to just sit on you for awhile can do a lot of damage.
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Should natural disaster occurs, natural selection occurs, as the species that adaptable enough to survive the natural disaster will continue their existance and those which not adaptable enough to survive these will be wiped out from the area.\nThose which able to continue their existance will inherit the traits that enable them to survive the natural disaster and of course, those who cannot survive will not have a chance to inherit their traits. \nThose will results to the increase of the "resistance" of the surviving species to the same natural disaster.
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Your probably gonna be looking at droughts, and earthquakes.\n\n\nThese might help\nhttp://www.disastercenter.com/disaster/TOP100K.html\nhttp://www.ndmindia.nic.in/\n\nhope that helps
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read different disaster mangement programmes
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Find specific disasters caused by the Ring of Fire and describe the effects and the aftermath. Also describe what engineering standards have been designed to prevent future disasters. Effects don't have to be limited only to the disasters themselves... you can focus on political policies, engineering standards, building codes, disaster preparedness, emotional issues (i.e., how have people learned how to cope with post-disaster stress), along with similar factors. So focus on the country's REACTION as well as the disaster's ACTION.
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For a very good explanation start here:\n\nhttp://clearlyexplained.com/nature/earth/disasters/cyclones.html\n\nIf you want some additional information read on:\n\nCyclones\n\nThe terms "hurricane" and "typhoon" are regionally specific names for a strong "tropical cyclone". A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a non-frontal synoptic scale low-pressure system over tropical or sub-tropical waters with organized convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation (Holland 1993).\n\nTropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are called "tropical depressions" (This is not to be confused with the condition mid-latitude people get during a long, cold and grey winter wishing they could be closer to the equator ;-)). Once the tropical cyclone reaches winds of at least 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) they are typically called a "tropical storm" and assigned a name. If winds reach 33 m/s (64 kt, 74 mph)), then they are called:\n\n    * "hurricane" (the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E)\n    * "typhoon" (the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline)\n    * "severe tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Pacific Ocean west of 160E or Southeast Indian Ocean east of 90E)\n    * "severe cyclonic storm" (the North Indian Ocean)\n    * "tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Indian Ocean) \n\nHow they are Caused\n\nGo to this link for a diagram:\n\nhttp://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/A15.html\n\nTo undergo tropical cyclogenesis, there are several favorable pre cursor environmental conditions that must be in place (Gray 1968,1979) :\n\n1. Warm ocean waters (of at least 26.5°C [80°F]) throughout a sufficient depth (unknown how deep, but at least on the order of 50 m [150 ft]). Warm waters are necessary to fuel the heat engine of the tropical cyclone.\n\n2. An atmosphere which cools fast enough with height such that it is potentially unstable to moist convection. It is the thunderstorm activity which allows the heat stored in the ocean waters to be liberated for the tropical cyclone development.\n\n3. Relatively moist layers near the mid-troposphere (5 km [3 mi]). Dry mid levels are not conducive for allowing the continuing development of widespread thunderstorm activity.\n\n4. A minimum distance of at least 500 km [300 mi] from the equator. For tropical cyclogenesis to occur, there is a requirement for non-negligible amounts of the Coriolis force to provide for near gradient wind balance to occur. Without the Coriolis force, the low pressure of the disturbance cannot be maintained.\n\n5. A pre-existing near-surface disturbance with sufficient vorticity and convergence. Tropical cyclones cannot be generated spontaneously. To develop, they require a weakly organized system with sizable spin and low level inflow.\n\n6. Low values (less than about 10 m/s [20 kts 23 mph]) of vertical wind shear between the surface and the upper troposphere. Vertical wind shear is the magnitude of wind change with height. Large values of vertical wind shear disrupt the incipient tropical cyclone and can prevent genesis, or, if a tropical cyclone has already formed, large vertical shear can weaken or destroy the tropical cyclone by interfering with the organization of deep convection around the cyclone center.
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Naturally occurring earthquakes\n\nMost naturally occurring earthquakes are related to the tectonic nature of the Earth. Such earthquakes are called tectonic earthquakes. The Earth's lithosphere is a patch work of plates (see plate tectonics) in slow but constant motion caused by the heat in the Earth's mantle and core. Plate boundaries glide past each other, creating frictional stress. When the frictional stress exceeds a critical value, called local strength, a sudden failure occurs. The boundary of tectonic plates along which failure occurs is called the fault plane. When the failure at the fault plane results in a violent displacement of the Earth's crust, the elastic strain energy is released and elastic waves are radiated, thus causing an earthquake. It is estimated that only 10 percent or less of an earthquake's total energy is ultimately radiated as seismic energy, while most of the earthquake's energy is used to power the earthquake fracture growth and is eventually converted into heat. Therefore, earthquakes lower the Earth's available potential energy and thermal energy, though these losses are negligible. To describe the physical process of occurrence of an earthquake, seismologists use the Elastic-rebound theory.\n\nThe majority of tectonic earthquakes originate at depths not exceeding a few tens of kilometers. Earthquakes occurring at boundaries of tectonic plates are called interplate earthquakes, while the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called intraplate earthquakes.\n\nWhere the crust is thicker and colder, earthquakes occur at greater depths of hundreds of kilometers along subduction zones where plates descend into the Earth's mantle. These types of earthquakes are called deep focus earthquakes. They are possibly generated when subducted lithospheric material catastrophically undergoes a phase transition (e.g., olivine to spinel), releasing stored energy—such as elastic strain, chemical energy or gravitational energy—that cannot be supported at the pressures and temperatures present at such depths.\n\nEarthquakes may also occur in volcanic regions and are caused by the movement of magma in volcanoes. Such quakes can be an early warning of volcanic eruptions.\n\nA recently proposed theory suggests that some earthquakes may occur in a sort of earthquake storm, where one earthquake will trigger a series of earthquakes each triggered by the previous shifts on the fault lines, similar to aftershocks, but occurring years later, and with some of the later earthquakes as damaging as the early ones. Such a pattern was observed in the sequence of about a dozen earthquakes that struck the Anatolian Fault in Turkey in the 20th Century, the half dozen large earthquakes in New Madrid in 1811-1812, and has been inferred for older anomalous clusters of large earthquakes in the Middle East and in the Mojave Desert.\n\nInduced earthquakes\nSome earthquakes are the result of a number of anthropogenic sources, such as extraction of minerals and fossil fuel from the Earth's crust, the removal or injection of fluids into the crust, reservoir-induced seismicity, massive explosions, and collapse of large buildings. These seismic events caused by human activity are referred to by the term induced seismicity. They however are not strictly earthquakes and usually show a different seismogram than earthquakes that occur naturally.\n\nA rare few earthquakes have been associated with the build-up of large masses of water behind dams, such as the Kariba Dam in Zambia, Africa, and with the injection or extraction of fluids into the Earth's crust (e.g. at certain geothermal power plants and at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal). Such earthquakes occur because the strength of the Earth's crust can be modified by fluid pressure. Earthquakes have also been known to be caused by the removal of natural gas from subsurface deposits, for instance in the northern Net
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Hurricanes, Blizzards, Monsoons, and Tsunamis
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The normal huge storms on coastal areas around the world....this year.\n\nLarge earthquake.......Asia....2007\n\nSome big volcano news in Pacific Rim....2008.\n\nA scary encounter with an asteroid...near miss....2009.\n\nA major drought scattered world-wide......2010-2012.
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Tsunami, Hurricane in New Orleans, and in Texas, World Trade center.War in Iraq,bird flu...yeah
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meh\n\nhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=disaster+recovery&meta=
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You should find all the info you need here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane#Structure_and_classification
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Here is a list: \n\nhttp://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/naturalhazards/majorearthquakes/earthquakes_stats_new.html
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http://home.att.net/~thehessians/disasterwatch.html There you go!! Hope you like it.
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How are tsunamis generated?          \n\nTsunamis are generated by any large, impulsive displacement of the sea level. \nTsunamis are also triggered by landslides into or under the water surface, and can be generated by volcanic activity and meteorite impacts.