Natural hazards

Natural environmental hazards and disasters involve comparatively rare high-intensity processes and extreme events caused by both terrestrial and atmospheric processes. The study of natural hazards includes the consideration of identification of specific events, finding of their causative factors, assessment of their impacts on human and other biological communities, prediction of such events and finding their remedial measures. Natural hazards fall in two broad categories (1) planetary hazards and (2) extra-planetary hazards or extra-terrestrial natural hazards.