This is a presentation showing the types of disaster, areas of India prone to disaster and the areas affected by disaster India with animations.

1. DISASTER
BY
MS:LINU ZACHARIAH
1ST YR MSc nursing
Sadhu Vaswani College Of Nursing
Pune

2. DEFINITION

3. A disaster can be defined as any
occurrence that causes
damage, ecological disruption, loss of
human life or deterioration of health and
health services on a sufficient scale to
warrant an extra ordinary response from
outside the affected community or area.

5. TYPES OF DISASTER
NATURAL MANMADE

6. • Earthquake
• Tsunamis
• Volcanic Disruption
• Cyclone
• Tornados
• Hurricanes
• Flood
• Droughts
• Hail storms
• Blizzards
• Landslide
• Avalanches
• Communicable
Diseases
Natural Disaster

8. EARTHQUAKES

9. EARTH QUAKES

10. LAYERS OF EARTH

11. EARTH QUAKE PRONE AREAS

12. TSUNAMI

14. TSUNAMI PRONE AREAS

15. VOLCANOS

17. IGNEOUS

18. CYLONE

19. CYLONE

21. CYCLONE PRONE AREAS

22. TORNADOS

23. TORNADOS

25. HURRICANES

28. FLOODS

30. FLOODS

33. DROUGHT

36. NATURAL FIRE

37. HAILSTORMS

38. BLIZARDS

42. AVALANCHES

44. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
• ANY UNUSUAL OCCURANCE OF A DISEASE IN
A COMMUNITY OR REGION AT THE SAME
TIME.

45. MAN MADE DISASTERS

46. CONVENTIONAL WAR FARE

47. NONCONVENTIONAL WAR FARE

48. TRANSPORTATION ACCIDENTS

49. EXPLOSIONS

50. FIRE

51. CIVIL UNREST

52. TERRORISTS ATTACK

53. TOXIC MATERIALS