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Keywords: calamitous, disrupts, unplanned, cope, destruction

An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap.

ftp.uga.edu

any occurrence that causes damage, ecological destruction, loss of human lives, or deterioration of health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community area.

nhtsa.dot.gov

In General, defined as any damaging or destructive event that overwhelms available resources, causes serious loss, destruction, hardship, unhappiness, or death. For IT environments, a disaster is thought of as any event that creates an inability on an organizations part to provide critical business functions for some extended period of time. It may entail the loss of data and processing capability.

recoveryspecialties.com

Situations which cause massive loss of life or economic damage. Natural disasters include droughts, earthquakes and floods.

oxfam.org.uk

A disaster is a natural or human-caused occurrence causing vast destruction and distress.

blacknj.com

An unexpected occurance inflicting widespread destruction and distress and having long-term adverse effects on agency operations. Each agency defines what a long-term adverse effect is in relation to its most critical program.

epa.gov

a singular or interactive hazard event that has a profound impact on local people or places either in terms of loss of life or injuries, property damages, or environmental impact. Most such events are declared disasters once a certain threshold of impact has been crossed (e.g., more than 100 fatalities, more than $5 million in damages).

aag.org

a serious disruption of the functioning of society, causing widespread human, material or environmental losses which exceed the ability of affected society to cope using only its own resources;46 the result of a vast ecological breakdown in the relations between man and his environment, a serious and sudden event (or slow as in drought) on such a scale that the stricken community needs extraordinary efforts to cope with it, often with outside help or international aid.47 A disaster results when the absorbing capacity of the affected society is unable to maintain the functionality of an essential element above a threshold.

pdm.medicine.wisc.edu

A sudden and unexpected event that results in loss of records and information essential to an organization's continued operation.

arcweb.sos.state.or.us

A sudden, unplanned calamitous event that causes great damage or loss. In the business environment, it is an event that creates an inability on an organization's part to provide the critical business functions for some predetermined period of time.

businesscontingency.com

a “large-scale” man-made or natural hazard resulting in severe property damage, injuries and/or death within a community or multi-jurisdictional area that requires local, state, and federal assistance to alleviate damage, loss, hardship, or suffering.

cema.chathamcounty.org

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

wordnet.princeton.edu

a calamitous event resulting in loss of life, great human suffering and distress, and large scale material damage

icrc.org

a calamitous event that occurs with out any prior warning and causes substantial interruption requiring prompt management attention

zurichna.com

a dangerous event that requires a response beyond the scope of a local agency

miottawa.org

a life changing event

freerepublic.com

a natural or human-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment

wikimirror.com

an awesome event

omh.state.ny.us

an emergency considered severe enough by local government to warrant the response and dedication of resources beyond the normal scope of a single jurisdiction or branch of local government

csc.noaa.gov

an emergency in which there are inadequate facilities and services available to handle the problem

thebca.org

an emergency situation that is out of control

icom.museum

an event that causes great damage, loss, or distress

geocities-website-builder-swicki.eurekster.com

an event that could hurt people and cause damages

msp.gouv.qc.ca

an event that results in great damage, difficulty, or death

dssresources.com

an 'event' with a distinct beginning and a distinct end, and it is by definition extraordinary - a freak of nature, a perversion of the natural processes of life

csc.noaa.gov

an event with which a particular government cannot cope with its own means alone

un.org

an occurrence, such as hurricane

reactintl.org

an occurrence that causes human suffering or creates human needs that the victims cannot alleviate without assistance

kncsb.com

an unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant property damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent changes to the natural environment

aynurkece.info

a social disruption that can occur at the level of th

experiencefestival.com

a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, economic or environmental losses that exceed the community's or society's ability to cope using its own resources

irinnews.org

a sudden event bringing great damage, loss or destruction usually caused by some hostile external agency

everfinancial.com

a sudden event bringing great damage, loss or destruction usually caused by some hostile weather event

rrsc.us

a sudden, unplanned, severe interruption of normal business activities

calamityprevention.com

a threatening or occurring event of such destructive magnitude and force as to dislocate people, separate family members, damage or destroy homes, and injure or kill people

dovebof.org

a tragic event that disrupts the normal routine of life, causing loss of property and life and suffering"

racaresontario.ca

a traumatic event with varying amount of impact for everyone involved

tnema.org

an event, either natural or man-made, that causes great distress or destruction

tilz.tearfund.org

A large-scale, cross-boundary incident causing significant human and economic loss requiring a greater level of response.

agrosecurity.uga.edu

Situation or event, which overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a request to national or international level for external assistance (definition considered in EM-DAT); An unforeseen and often sudden event that causes great damage, destruction and human suffering. Though often caused by nature, disasters can have human origins. Wars and civil disturbances that destroy homelands and displace people are included among the causes of disasters. Other causes can be: building collapse, blizzard, drought, epidemic, earthquake, explosion, fire, flood, hazardous material or transportation incident (such as a chemical spill), hurricane, nuclear incident, tornado, or volcano ( Disaster Relief).

em-dat.net

An unplanned and unexpected event that damages critical business functions, disabling an entity and the ability to function normally, thus threatening viability.

synergisticonline.com

An event that causes major disruption on the economy, society and the environment. Its origin or causes may be directly derived from natural phenomena, i.e. geophysical (as volcanic or seismic events that cause collapse of infrastructure, landslides or liquefaction, etc.) or climatic (as hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, major variation in rainfall both in terms of excess or deficit causing drought). Although usually not covered by the methodology, disasters may also have a “human” or anthropic origin as chemical spills, industrial accidents, or voluntarily caused events such as war, terrorist actions, etc. Disaster consequences or damage will always be associated with human intervention before, during and after the event (the “disaster cycle”).

vle.worldbank.org

Any event that creates an inability on an organizations part to provide critical business functions for some predetermined period of time. SIMILAR TERMS: Business Interruption; Outage; Catastrophe.

binomial.com

Disasters are characterized by the scope of an emergency. An emergency becomes a disaster when it exceeds the capability of local resources to manage. Disasters often result in great damage, loss, or destruction.

esri.com

A sudden and negative event that damages some or all archival holdings and interferes with normal services and programs of the archives: may also harn1 organisation's property and interfere with business activities.

britishrecordsassociation.org.uk

A disaster is defined as any natural catastrophe (e.g. tornado, hurricane, earthquake), or regardless of cause, any fire, flood, or explosion that causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant the intervention of local, state, or federal agencies and disaster relief organizations.

newmexicoacts.org

Any occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from a Natural, Technological, and/or National Security incident, including but not limited to earthquake, explosion, fire, flood, high water, hostile military actions, hurricanes, landslide, mudslide, storms, tidal wave, tornadoes, wind driven water or other disasters.

ci.lewes.de.us

A condition in which an information asset is unavailable, as a result of a natural or man-made occurrence, that is of sufficient duration to cause significant disruption in the accomplishment of agency program objectives, as determined by agency management.

sam.dgs.ca.gov

A sudden, unplanned calamitous event that creates an inability for an organization to provide its core services for a prolonged period of time that results in great damage and/or loss.

isl.com.my

An earthquake is a natural disaster.

newton-e-learning.com

A sudden, unplanned calamitous event that causes loss and hardship to all or part of an enterprise and thereby significantly impacts its ability to deliver essential services for some period of time.

strohl.com

An event that causes the failure of multiple components or entire data centers; these include natural disasters, acts of terrorism or sabotage, or large-scale power outages.

docs.hp.com

The catastrophe may be natural or man-made. Natural disasters include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, title waves, floods, plagues, and meteor strikes. Man-made disasters include nuclear explosions, accidents caused by experimenting with bacteria or DNA, accidents involving aircraft or ocean vessels, or the destruction of the ozone layer.

mtnhomesd.org

Any incident that prevents access to a required infrastructure beyond a tolerable period. This may be because of physical damage (e.g. fire, explosion etc), or through any incident of similar effect (i.e. Denial of access, Theft, Sabotage, Loss of Power, Communications lines.

recoverys.com.au

a manifestation of an interaction between extreme physical or natural phenomena and a vulnerable human group that results in general disruption and destruction, loss of life and livelihood and injury (Tilling, Volcanic Hazards, fig. 1.1, p. 3)

library.thinkquest.org

A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community/society to cope using its own resources.

deldom.cec.eu.int

An event or situation that is of the magnitude greater than an emergency, disruptive, unforeseen, serious requiring response outside of the capacity of the community affected.

wisconsinnurses.org

Any real or anticipated occurrence which endangers the lies, safety, welfare and well-being of some or all of the people and cannot be brought under control by the use of all regular Municipal Government services and resources.

consultwebs.com

An event that causes serious disruption of the functions of society and results in widespread human, material or environmental losses, exceeding the ability of the affected society to cope using only its own resources. Disasters are often classified according to their speed of onset (sudden or slow) or according to their cause (natural, man-made, or unexpected).

cenat.ch

A disaster (from Middle French dÃ©sastre, from Old Italian disastro, from Latin pejorative prefix dis- bad + astrum star) is the impact of a natural or human-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment. Disasters occur when hazards strike in vulnerable areas. Disasters are generally more limited in scale than doomsday events, the global impact of which would threaten a large proportion of life on earth.

en.wikipedia.org

Disaster is a season 5 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It recounts events following a collision with a quantum filament that disrupts all of the systems on board the ship (including the communications systems), setting up the conditions for a warp core breach that will destroy the ship.

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Keywords: coping, skater, trick, perpendicular, hang

A lip trick where one gets "hung up " on the coping, most often with the board perpendicular to the coping.

expn.go.com

A lip trick where a skater's board hangs on the coping

metroactive.com

A halfpipe lip trick where one lands with the coping perpendicular to the snowboard. Originated in skateboarding when skaters would land their skateboard trucks (axle) to hang-up. With no trucks it's really not a disaster, but we'll call it that anyway.

nuclearsnow.0catch.com

Keywords: catastrophe, irremediable, misfortune, unexpectedly, unavoidable

a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"

wordnet.princeton.edu

an unavoidable catastrophe that occurs unexpectedly

windowsecurity.com

Major disturbances in the life of a community or population which occur sufficiently often to leave their record in the 'genetic memory' of the population ( cf. Catastrophe).

blackwellpublishing.com

Keywords: baleful, unpropitious, portent, malevolent, star

An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.

ftp.uga.edu

To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

ftp.uga.edu

literally "bad stars"; particularly suitable in reference to a major asteroid impact. eclipse The hiding or blocking of one celestial object from another. solar eclipse occurs when the moon comes between the Sun and the observer. This happens when the shadow cone of the Moon touches the surface of the Earth, and is observable by anyone within this shadow zone.

lessonplanspage.com

Keywords: ransacks, ferry, monday, crowd, egypt

a crowd ransacks egypt ferry office monday

cruise.job21.info

Keywords: danville, katsu, pennsylvania, album, august

Disaster is the second album of the Pennsylvania rock band Katsu. Disaster was recorded from August - October 2003 in Danville, Pennsylvania, and was released in the United States in 2004.

en.wikipedia.org

Keywords: piastre, egyptian, coin

A piastre (Egyptian coin)

anu.edu.au

Keywords: mao, outage, exceeds

an outage that exceeds the MAO

anao.gov.au

Keywords: toigo, messiness, can't, anticipate, says

a messy thing by nature, and you can't anticipate all the messiness," Toigo says

65.221.110.105

Keywords: phenomenal, sociological, force, equalizing

a phenomenal sociological equalizing force