All-hazards disaster is best defined as:
a. all types of natural and human terrorist events.
b. an event involving floods, tornadoes, hur-ricanes, and earthquakes.
c. an unforeseen and often unplanned event causing great damage.
d. any type of biological, chemical, radio-logical, or nuclear event.
A
An all-hazards disaster includes all types of natural acts such as earthquakes, forest fires, floods, and hurricanes, or terrorist events such as biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear attacks. A disaster is an unforeseen and often sudden event that causes great damage, destruction, and human suffering.
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