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A natural disaster is the consequence of a natural hazard (e.g. volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide) which affects human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or appropriate emergency management,
leads to financial, environmental or human losses. The resulting loss
depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the
disaster, their resilience.^[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability".^[2]
A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas
without vulnerability, e.g. strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas.
The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement.