International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Disasters are unanticipated catastrophes that not only claim the lives of humans and animals, but also cause significant damage to natural and man-made assets. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, and environmental disasters can all be classified as the result of poverty, overpopulation, and environmental degradation. A disaster is an occurrence that occurs over a period of time and space in which a civilization suffers substantial natural resource losses and social resource losses. A disaster affects the vital functioning of a society that includes biological survival such as subsistence, shelter, health, reproduction, and social survival such as the system of meaning and values. Disaster situation always differs in the nature of precipitating agents in regard to, sources of origin, degree of predictability, probability, controllability, speed, scope and destructive effects on people and physical objects.