← 🌦️ Environment · usually met in Std 6-12
Earthquakes, floods, cyclones, heatwaves, fires. The hazard is natural; most of the damage is decided by what people built and whether they were warned.
Preparation is what separates a hazard from a disaster. Cyclone warning systems and evacuation along India's east coast have cut deaths from storms dramatically over a few decades, even as the storms themselves have not become gentler. Earthquake deaths are overwhelmingly caused by buildings, so building codes and honest construction do more than any prediction could.
At the scale of a family: know where the gas and electricity shut-offs are, keep a torch, water and important documents together, agree where to meet if separated, and know which floor of your own building is safest for which hazard. In a flood, never walk or drive into moving water, and in a heatwave, water and shade in the afternoon are not a comfort but a medical necessity.
Want to see it moving? Search YouTube for “Disasters and being ready” ↗ — we send you to the search rather than to one video, because a link to one video eventually rots.
This entry was written for Star Student in our own words — it is a summary, not a source. Here is where the people who actually hold these facts keep them. Go and check.
Your own textbook ↗Balbharati publishes the textbooks free to read online. Your chapter is the thing to check first — an encyclopedia is a summary, and the syllabus is the syllabus. India Meteorological Department ↗The monsoon, rainfall and cyclone warnings, from the department that issues them. Zoological Survey of India ↗India's animal life, surveyed and catalogued since 1916.Last gone through: 1 October 2026 · How these entries are written
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