A hazard is a dangerous place or situation (that hasn't taken place), eg, live electric wires on a power pole.
A natural disaster is a catastrophe that occurs as a result of nature, eg, tsunamis, earthquakes and bush fires.
Risk is the probability that a hazard will turn into a disaster. risks can be reduced or managed. Challenge is a call to engage in a contest.
A hazard may be dangerous. An acute hazard is very dangerous.
A hazard becomes a disaster when human life, property and environment has come to harm.
emergency may lead to disaster
its a problem when you loose your shoe. its a hazard to ride your bike in the street.
A hazard becomes a disaster when the hazard becomes spread out over a large area. For example, the Chernobyl disaster started as a small hazard which became something that could not be controled. Eventually the plant exploded and created the worst nuclear disaster in history. The land will not be habitable for centuries.
A hazard is a warning to people(s) that by doing something to a object it could cause a disaster. Eg. a hazard warning on a door. by going in you could get radiation poisoning, leading to a disaster. or if there is a hazard warning for a area and it then escalates causing a disaster ( winds pick up and turn into a twister).
The reason a hazard becomes a disaster is because the hazard is ignored. Most disasters can be avoided if care is taken to correct minor situations.
a natural hazard turns into a disaster when a lot of people get trapped in it and sadly loose their life to a hazard and a very few steps are taken to save such people.
Not all salts have sodium in them. So a salinity hazard could mean different salts.
There is no difference between the reaction to a manmade disaster and the reaction to a natural disaster
Peril is cause of loss whereas hazard is condition which arises the chances of loss.