What is Disaster and Hazard (Disaster Management)

*Disaster occurs suddenly & shows impact in less time and causes huge damage. 
*whereas Hazard causes damage gradually & leads to more impact. ex: diseases, pollution, Chemical reaction etc.,   

Disasters:
A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disturbs the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the society’s ability to cope using its own resources.
Though often caused by nature, disasters can have human origins.

Hazards:
Hazard may be defined as “a dangerous condition, which have the potential for causing injury to life, damage to property & the environment damage.”
The word ‘hazard’ owes its origin to the word  ‘hasard’ in old French and ‘az-zahr’ in Arabic meaning ‘chance’ or ‘luck’.

Hazards are classified into two types: 
1. Natural Hazard
2. Manmade Hazard