Disaster and its Types

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Define disaster, Types of disaster and associated problems, Disaster threats, General effects of disaster, Outlines of
individual disaster, Earthquake Risk and its Impact with examples, Prediction of earthquake, Mock drill for public,
Bomb threat, Campus shooting, Tsunami, Terrorist incident, Flood Risk Management, Assessing flood risks and its
topology.

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