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1. ................. are incidents that cause significant damage or destruction to life and property.
2. While most disasters happen suddenly like earthquake, nuclear explosion, others like ................. may have a slow beginning and later increase in extent and intensity.
3. Disasters affect people living in .......................... countries more adversely.
4. Earthquakes usually occur without ...............
5. An ................. is a sudden violent movement of a portion of the earth’s crust.
6. .............. are mostly caused due to the overflowing of rivers in the monsoon.
7.............. per cent of the land area in India is drought-prone.
8................ lead to acute shortage of water and crop failure.
9. .................... nuclear disasters mostly occur due to accidents in nuclear power reactors.
10. The Bhopal Gas tragedy is an incident of ...................
11. The terror attack on Parliament of India took place on ......................
12. Nepal lies on the fault called .................
13. ................. horizon explosion is the largest oil spill in the history of petroleum industry.
14. Heavy rainfall in Assam causes the ..................... river and its tributaries to overflow.
15. ............. is the most flood-prone region amongst the great northern plains of India with almost 73 per cent of the state affected by floods.