Disaster definition clarifies events from natural or man-made causes causing severe loss and exceeding community coping capacity. The statutory definition of disaster encompasses catastrophic occurrences arising from natural causes, man-made causes, accident or negligence that produce substantial loss of life, human suffering, property destruction, or environmental degradation and are of such nature or magnitude as to be beyond the coping capacity of the affected community.
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Disaster definition clarifies events from natural or man-made causes causing severe loss and exceeding community coping capacity.
The statutory definition of disaster encompasses catastrophic occurrences arising from natural causes, man-made causes, accident or negligence that produce substantial loss of life, human suffering, property destruction, or environmental degradation and are of such nature or magnitude as to be beyond the coping capacity of the affected community.
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