what is the difference between "disaster" and "catastrophe"?
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DISASTER---\n1.  damaging or destructive event: an event that causes serious loss, destruction, hardship, unhappiness, or death  \n2.  somebody or something unsuccessful: somebody or something that fails completely, especially in a way that is distressing, embarrassing, or laughable (informal) \n\nCATASTROPHE--- \n1.  disaster: a terrible disaster or accident, especially one that leads to great loss of life  \n2.  humiliating total failure: an absolute failure, often in humiliating or embarrassing circumstances  \n3.  theater resolution of plot: the concluding part of the action in a drama, especially a classical tragedy, when the plot is resolved  \n4.  geology violent seismic change: a sudden and violent change in the earth’s crust caused by an earthquake, flood, or any other natural process. \nAlso called cataclysm \n\nthat's what i know!! but that is a correct answer! i'm a vocabulary woman! =)
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bombardment does mean a collision\nblast means explosion\na bombardment may lead to blast
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Hurricanes are considered an act of God(or nature).The way our government is heading they could be the act of Satan!
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A fragile country is a country in crisis. for example : Afghanistan is a fragile country.
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I believe an ocean tsunami have been more destructive in Earth's history.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
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You won't be warned.  The earth will just start moving.  The danger isn't the earthquake.  The dangers are the things that fall on you, the fires that burn after (assuming gas lines or electricity or some source of fire and fuel).
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Plagues and natural disasters and earthquakes and floods and fire storms ......OMG the world is cumming to and end.
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Ex. tragedy: loss and sorrow, Comedy: laughter and jokes. what tragedy and comedy consist of.
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is disaster a choice?
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Natural disaster...tornado, earthquake, etc.
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Both are equally Scary and both equally deadly. Many have died (some senslessly) for both of these causes. For Science it was the Atomic Bomd of Hiroshima, for Religion the most recent example is 9/11.\n\nMore people need to really reasearch both their science and the religion before taking too many blind steps.
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location is the difference: hurricanes in the atlantic and east pacific, typhoons in the west pacific, and cyclones in the indian ocean and south pacific. \nhowever, tornadoes are a completely different phenomenon and are much more localized, small scale "twisters", that can at times have winds of nearly 300 MPH (way higher than the most powerful hurricanes).
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That depends if the government decides to make the same mistake again. It's the sad truth that very rarely does mankind actually learn anything from there mistakes. I find that rather pathetic. But maybe that's just me. I just wonder how many times that place is gong to be flooded and rebuilt before they remember their physics 101. When you build a city below sea level chances are, it will flood in a hurricane!!!
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man cant control natural disasters for many reasons. first of all humans dont know when such an event will occur. most of the time they realize only after the disaster starts. secondly they have no technology that can stop a coming tornado or tsunami or such disaster.
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It's 'the fire' when you are talking about fire in a specific location.  When, for example, you are talking about a bonfire, you might say to someone 'Don't go too near the fire'.  \n\nIt's 'fire' when you are talking about the phenomenon of fire itself, as a chemical reaction.  For example, 'Fire destroys many forests every year.'
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Byron's Don Juan: "Tragedy ends in death; comedy, in marriage." See also contrast ... Tragedies end in death; comedies, in marriage" \n\nLord Byron, in a famous observation, noted that comedies end in marriage ... act's comedy ends in marriage, the second's tragedy ends in death.
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We had a debate about this in our English class. \nFinal ruling: they mean the same exact thing. There are slight differences (one means an object can self-combust into flame in certian circumstances), but there's not a difference worth noting!