Natural Disaster

Topics

  1. General Social Survey Concepts
  2. Natural Disaster

Series

Studies

Concept

Name
Natural Disaster en-NZ
Description

An emergency situation posing significant danger to life and property that results from a natural cause (The Free Dictionary, Farlex). The Earthquake Commission Act 1993 defines 'Natural disaster' as (a) An earthquake, natural landslip, volcanic eruption, hydrothermal activity, or tsunami; or (b) Natural disaster fire; or (c) In the case only of residential land, a storm or flood. For the purpose of this survey, natural disasters will include possible pandemics such as Avian Bird Flu.

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Information

http://dbpedia.org/
http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/
http://umbel.org/umbel/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/

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