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the effect of a natural hazard
 Natural Disaster
  is the effect of a natural hazard that affects the environment, and
leads to financial, environmental and/or human losses. The
resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to
support or resist the disaster, and their resilience. This
understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters
occur when hazards meet vulnerability." A natural hazard will
hence never result in a natural disaster in areas without
vulnerability, e.g. strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas. The
termnatural has consequently been disputed because the events
simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement.

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 Examples of Natural Disaster

 Earthquakes
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An Earthquake is a sudden shake
of the Earth's crust.The vibrations may
vary in magnitude. The underground
point of origin of the earthquake is
called the "focus". The point directly
above the focus on the surface is
called the"epicenter". Earthquakes by
themselves rarely kill people or
wildlife.
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 Volcanic Eruption
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An Eruption may in itself be a
disaster due to the explosion of the
volcano or the fall of rock but there
are several effects that may happen
after an eruption that are also
hazardous to human life.
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 Flood
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A flood is an overflow or accumulation
of an expanse of water that submerges land
it can also occur in rivers, when flow
exceeds the capacity of the river channel,
particularly at bends or meanders. Floods
often cause damage to homes and businesses
if they are placed in natural flood plains of
rivers.
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 Fire
 Wildfires are an
uncontrolled fire burning
in wildland areas. Common
causes include lightning
and drought but wildfires
may also be started by
human negligence or arson
. They can be a threat to
those in rural areas and
also wildlife.
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 Storm
A storm is any disturbed
state of an astronomical
body's atmosphere,
especially affecting its
surface, and strongly
implying severe weather.
It may be marked by
strong wind, thunder and
lightning.

Types of Storm
-Blizzard, Thunderstorm, Hailstorm, Tornado and Windstorm
 Cyclones
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are huge revolving storms caused by winds
blowing around a central area of low 
atmospheric pressure. In the northern
hemisphere, cyclones are called hurricanes or
typhoons and their winds blow in an anti-
clockwise circle. In the southern hemisphere,
these tropical storms are known as cyclones,
whose winds blow in a clockwise circle.
 Drought

 A drought is a prolonged, abnormally dry

period when there is not enough
water for users' normal needs. 

 Droughts are caused by lack of rain over

a long period of time. If rain does
occur it usually isn't enough for the
ground to absorb before it is
evaporated again.
 Natural Disasters and Their Root
Cause
 In recent times the world has witnessed climate change and
natural disasters of gigantic proportions. This is just the
beginning of a 10-15 year destructive phase which will increase
in intensity. The root cause behind this weird weather patterns
and destruction is primarily spiritual.
 In a world that is increasingly connected, natural disasters have far
reaching repercussions that are felt beyond the geographic
boundaries of where the natural disasters hit.
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 Global warming is not the only major contributing factor to climate
change. The Spiritual Science Research Foundation undertook
spiritual research to ascertain the actual causes of climate
change and the increasing intensity of natural disasters.
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 The effect of Man on Nature
 Man affects Nature to the extent of 90%. This happens in following
three ways.

 At a physical level (30%): Excessive cutting of trees, oil leakages,

emissions from factories, etc.

 At a psychological level (30%): Why do people indiscriminately

add to the greenhouse effect and pollute the planet? The answer
lies in the mind of Man. As Man gets more selfish and cares less
about the planet and his fellow men, he indiscriminately abuses
the resources of the Earth.

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Along with this, immoral behaviour and tensions in society,
lead to a rise in the raja-tama subtle basic components. The
collective psychological temperament of Man is closely related
to the spiritual level at which Man affects Nature
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 At a spiritual level (40%): If one digs deeper into the

psychological nature of Man one will find that it is heavily
influenced by his spiritual maturity. A reduction in the
collective spiritual consciousness of Man results in selfishness
and unrighteousness. When there is a lack of spiritual practice
that conforms to the five basic principles of spiritual practice
there is a rise in the raja-tama in the environment also known
as spiritual pollution.
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The response of Nature

 Nature responds to the need for cleansing and correcting the

subtle intangible pollution of raja-tama in the form of
earthquakes, floods, eruption of volcanoes, cyclones etc. which
are grossly visible; hence mankind is aware of their existence.
 However, the increase in raja-tama has far-reaching adverse
impact on the body, mind and intellect of Man. This impact
being subtle and intangible is not easily recognised and mankind
becomes aware of it only when this impact manifests as very
gross climatic changes. Unfortunately, at this point most of the
changes are irreversible.
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 Hence it is imperative that we understand the basic root cause of
these disasters and take appropriate steps (by undertaking
spiritual practice) to eradicate this spiritual pollution of raja-
tama attributes. This way we would be truly working for the
everlasting and all encompassing benefit of mankind
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