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๐ŸŒ‹Natural and Human Disasters
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905 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Natural and Human Disasters exam

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1755 Lisbon Earthquake
1883 Krakatoa eruption
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1918 influenza pandemic
1931 Yangtze River Floods
1970 Bhola Cyclone
1985 Mexico City Earthquake
1990s Kobe Earthquake
1998 Hurricane Mitch
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
2010 Haiti Earthquake
2011 tลhoku earthquake and tsunami
2012 Hurricane Sandy
2017 Mexico City Earthquake
2018 California wildfires
2019-2020 Australian Bushfires
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Access constraints
Access to resources
Accessible shelters
Accident investigation
Acute radiation syndrome
Acute Stress Disorder
Adaptive Capacity
Adaptive response
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)
Advanced medical equipment
Adverse weather conditions
Aerial photography
Afforestation
Age-disaggregated data
Agricultural drought
Agriculture sector
Air quality deterioration
Air Rescue
Airplane crash
Angle of repose
Anxiety
Anxiety Disorder
Aphid outbreaks
Artificial intelligence (AI)
ASCE 7
Ash fall
Asian carp
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Atmospheric Instability
Augmented reality (AR)
Automated data collection systems
Aviation safety

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Beavers
Beneficence
Benefit-cost analysis
Benzodiazepines
Bessel van der Kolk
Best Practices
Bhopal Disaster
Big data analytics
Biodiversity enhancement
Biodiversity loss
Bioengineering techniques
Biological control
Biological disaster
Black Death
Blockchain technology
Blocking patterns
Breaching techniques
Brown tree snake
Building back better
Building codes
Building codes for extreme weather
Business continuity planning
Business impact analysis
Business interruption costs
Business interruption insurance
Business interruptions