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A hazard event arising from geophysical processes or biological agents -- such as those creating earthquakes, hurricanes, or locust infestations -- that affect the lives, livelihood, and property of people.

 

Definition source: The Federal Emergency Management Agency

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Photograph of a multicell thunderstorm, which may last for several hours and produce severe weather.
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Lightning Spies
These cracks in the ground surface north of Chobari, India were caused by liquefaction induced during the Bhuj earthquake.
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Squeezing Water from Rock
This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferogram includes the epicenters of the October 23, 2002, and November 3, 2002 Denali Fault earthquakes, which are located at the extreme western end of the fault rupture.
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Denali's Fault
ASTER acquired this image of Mount St. Helens on August 8, 2000.
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Domes of Destruction
This image shows the inside of the NASA DC-8 aircraft. (Image courtesy of CAMEX-4).
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Dropping in on a Hurricane
SeaWinds can produce a detailed structure of a hurricane, as in this image of Hurricane Floyd. (Image courtesy of the Winds at JPL).
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Forecasting Fury
Photographed before 1983, Diadema sea urchins keep a dead coral surface free of algae.
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When the Dust Settles
Fires (shown as red dots) smolder throughout the Sahel, March 2, 2001.
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From the Dust Bowl to the Sahel