Question

what arethe natural causes and losses of natural disasters

Answer 1

The United States has experienced natural disasters since the nation's founding over 200 years ago. During the 1980's and 1990's the United States experienced numerous, expensive—and frequently deadly—natural disasters. These disasters and their impacts have become part of our history: the drought in the central United States in 1988, Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and the Northridge California earthquake of 1994 were the nation's three most costly to date. Through the course of this committee's study, the nation experienced a severe ice storm in the northeast United States, devastating floods along the Rio Grande and in southeast Texas, heavy rains and landslides in southern California, a five-week succession of wildfires in Florida, a severe drought in south and east Texas, and three major hurricanes which impacted the southeastern United States. The committee also conducted its study during the fabled El Niño of 1997–1998 (see Box 1-1). This warming of surface water in the central and South Pacific and attendant effects on global weather patterns was—rightly or wrongly—blamed for many of the nation's and planet's weather-related hazards during this period, and ''some forecasters have warned the nation to brace itself for much more expensive disasters in the future" (Larson, 1998).

Answer 2

Answer:

Natural disasters are catastrophic events with atmospheric, geological, and hydrological origins (e.g., droughts, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, landslides) that can cause fatalities, property damage and social environmental disruption