What Are They Natural disasters are any natural occurrences that cause widespread distress, usually including loss of human life and notable damage to social systems or property. They are violent upheavals that usually impact a large number of people. They may cause large-scale damage from which recovery is either impossible or long-term. Natural disasters include, but are not restricted to, the following: Avalanches, Droughts, Earthquakes, Flooding, Fog & Mist, Forest Fires, Hurricanes (Cyclone, Typhoon), Landslides, Main Page, Monsoons, Phenomena, Severe Storms, Snowstorms (Blizzard), Tornadoes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Windstorms. It is important to know that, many times, one natural disaster triggers or is accompanied by another. For example, earthquakes and volcanoes sometimes occur together because they are both caused by geologic movements. Earthquakes can damage water pipes, causing wildfires. They will sometimes trigger tsunami, which in turn flood the land, causing landslides. Hurricanes can cause thunderstorms and heavy rain that causes avalanches. Each tiny change within earth's atmosphere, including human activity, can affect something else in this dynamic system. Natural disasters are caused mainly by weather and geology - the turning and churning of our planet as it moves around the sun creates weather patterns, storm systems, and climate differences, while our earth shifts on plates and rivers of magma deep beneath the crust. Our world is immensely alive, everyday, under our feet. Sometimes those interactions manifest themselves as great global changes that we call natural disasters