He creates floods and earthquakes and they say it's an act of god.

Building codes already guard against dangers like fire and earthquakes.

At first sight, they could include volcanoes, earthquakes, tidal waves and rising sea levels.

With this type of construction, there will be little or no damage from floods, earthquakes or hurricanes.

We know that the tsunamis, the earthquakes, and the things that we've experienced in the entire record of humankind history can't really quite get around the kind of disaster that this represented for the Earth.

The Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the earthquakes in South East Asia and other national disasters have posed even greater threats to public health systems.

Indonesia's location on the edges of the Pacific, Eurasian, and Australian tectonic plates makes it the site of numerous volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.

For example, two of the three moves of the capital of Guatemala have been due to volcanic mudflows in 1541 and earthquakes in 1773.

The sites can detect when a nuclear explosion occurs and can also detect volcanoes, satellite crashes, storms and earthquakes.38

In addition to base mapping and satellite derived information, RESPOND is also committed to supporting training, providing support services and infrastructure, forecasting and alert services, thus covering a large part of the disaster management cycle.

In addition to base mapping and satellite derived information, RESPOND was also committed to supporting training, providing support services and infrastructure, forecasting and alert services and thus covered a large part of the disaster management cycle.

They had also been used for natural disaster relief with particular reference to drought, landslides, and earthquakes which had significantly hampered development.

Finally, monitoring and warning systems should be designed with the intent of serving to alert at risk populations about all major hazards in their area, and not exclusively about tsunamis and earthquakes.

In addition to ensuring a complex post conflict situation, Afghanistan was also vulnerable to natural disasters, such as drought and earthquakes.

As many as 50 million people around the world are estimated to be displaced each year by floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and landslides.

The mission was reminded that, like many Caribbean countries, Haiti is highly exposed to natural hazards such as hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and landslides.

So here, you've got this valley with this incredible alien landscape of pillars and hot springs and volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, inhabited by these very strange animals that live only on chemical energy coming out of the ground.

There are disasters of a clearly natural origin, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, which cannot be prevented and which constitute only 15 per cent of all disasters.

They are all poor, buffeted by natural disasters especially floods, droughts, and earthquakes and have rapidly growing populations that are pressing on the capacity of the land to feed them.

Using gravity, topography and seismic data, the crust is thought to be on average about thick, with the far side crust being on average thicker than the near side by about 15 km.

Volunteering in the public sector is less visible except in relation to disaster situations such as floods and earthquakes, when there is normally a broad based call for volunteers to assist.

The tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean, earthquakes in South Asia and the Far East, and hurricanes and mudslides in the Americas had heightened concern over the need for effective and efficient means of disaster management.

With these and expected additional resources, the Special Unit aims to fund initiatives that will generate shareable knowledge on community based responses to natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

Because of ongoing conflicts and natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and severe weather patterns that cause extensive damage for vulnerable populations in various parts of the world, the demand for humanitarian assistance continues to escalate.

We still have fresh memories of the massive loss of life and property that resulted from the Indian tsunami, the hurricanes in the Caribbean region and the earthquakes that occurred this year and in 2004.

Preview now includes data on cyclones, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, tsunamis and volcanoes, as well as a new application providing frequency and exposure to hazards (see http www.grid.unep.ch preview).

Each year, disasters such as storms, floods, volcanoes and earthquakes cause thousands of deaths and tremendous damage to property around the world, displacing tens of thousands of people from their homes and destroying their livelihood.

(a) Disasters such as floods, earthquakes, forest fires, oil spills, drought and volcanic eruptions affect large parts of the globe and coordinated international efforts are required to minimize their impacts.

Future catastrophes storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions, forest fires, agricultural or other environmental crises, disease epidemics, or terrorist attacks are likely to result in the same kinds of problems.

Each year, disasters such as storms, floods, volcanoes and earthquakes, cause thousands of deaths and tremendous damage to property around the world, displacing tens of thousands of people from their homes and destroying their livelihoods.

As at April 2005, the Charter had been activated over 70 times (20 times in 2004) in response to landslides, oil spills, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, forest and bush fires, earthquakes, storms and hurricanes.

So here, you've got this valley with this incredible alien landscape of pillars and hot springs and volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, inhabited by these very strange animals that live only on chemical energy coming out of the ground.

The review by the Commission for Social Development reveals that a number of factors continued to impede the ability to create an enabling environment, including natural and man made disasters, such as armed conflict, earthquakes, floods, droughts and HIV AIDS.

The fearsome power of natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes to devastate entire areas in mere moments and exterminate entire communities sparked serious discussions on what the international community could and should do to save lives when such calamities occur.

(d) Develop procedures for reviewing national progress against this Framework for Action, which should include systems for cost benefit analysis and ongoing monitoring and assessment of vulnerability and risk, in particular with regards to regions exposed to hydrometeorological and seismic hazards, as appropriate

Real progress in meeting the challenge of preventing such a horrible loss of human life can be made only when we finally understand a simple truth for killer waves, earthquakes and hurricanes, the world is not one of States and regions it is simply one world.

The secretariat of ISDR supported GRID Europe in updating and incorporating 25 years (1979 2003) of data on cyclones, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, tsunamis and volcanoes, including data on frequency and exposure to hazards.

ISBN 0 8248 1125 9 website Iwan, W.D., editor , 2006, Summary report of the Great Sumatra Earthquakes and Indian Ocean tsunamis of December 26, 2004 and March 28, 2005 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, EERI Publication 2006 06, 11 chapters, 100 page summary, plus CD ROM with complete text and supplementary photographs, EERI Report 2006 06.