Explain the mitigation and management of earthquake and floods
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the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something
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Disaster is a sudden change in the environmental condition causing excessive damage to human as well as plants, animals and surrounding. It is an immediate event with very less prior knowledge. Disaster is a damaging event of nature. The gravity of the loss or the intensity of the event is measured by the amount of loss by way of living beings and national property. Flood, Cyclone, Earth quakes are some of the disaster events. Tsunami is also one of the disaster events.
There are different types of disaster. Some are natural and some are manmade. Nuclear holocausts, Fire accidents are manmade disasters but floods, cyclones, drought, earthquakes are natural disaster as they are due to changes in the natural conditions.
1. Floods:
Floods are due to passage of water to habitation. Water stays for longer time covering the land area having human beings, plants and animals. Flood is a direct result of heavy rainfall in a continuous way for longer days. Indian states suffer due to flood every year.
Ganga, Brahmaputra is two major rivers which a use floods every year. Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Assam are the states which suffer much due to floods of these rivers. In Orissa, it is Mahanadi and Baitarani which cause floods in the adjoining areas of Cuttack, Puri, Balasore etc.