natural disaster

major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth, which may cause loss of life or property
natural disaster
Dave Harlow, USGS · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
failure mode, type of incident[6]
Subclass of
disaster, natural phenomenon, natural risk, risk source, environmental disturbance[7]
Described by source
Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[10]
Handled, mitigated, or managed by
disaster preparedness[21]
Manifestation of
natural risk[15]
P14541
3HqF6O, 1Bar69
Relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator
Target 11.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals, Target 1.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals
🏷️ Also known as
en natural disasters en natural calamity en cataclysm en natural disaster en natural hazards en natural hazard ar كارثة طبيعية cs přírodní katastrofa cs živelná pohroma cs živelní pohroma da naturkatastrofe de Naturkatastrophen de Naturkatastrophe de Landeskunde de Elementare Katastrophen el φυσική καταστροφή es catástrofe natural es desastre natural fa بلایای طبیعی fi luonnonkatastrofi
🔖 Identifiers · 62
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85090214
GND ID
4041387-1
ABC News topic ID
storm-disaster
AGROVOC ID
c_10391
BNCF Thesaurus ID
6385
BabelNet ID
03411833n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11931689z
CNA topic ID
natural-disaster
Courrier international topic ID
catastrophe-naturelle
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Dewey Decimal Classification
904
Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID
3311
Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID
249052
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
451244, 581310
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/natural-disaster
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
catastrophes-naturelles-notions-de-base
Eska.pl topic ID
tg-nUmy-aR6c-7rn5
EuroVoc ID
413
Euronews topic ID
natural-catastrophe
FactGrid item ID
Sawyer
Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID
252
France 24 topic ID (French)
catastrophe-naturelle
Freebase ID
/m/0g2k1
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
naturkatastrofe
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4166770
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
stikhiinye-bedstviia-ad393b
HDS ID
047887
Harper's tag
natural-disasters
IMDb keyword
natural-disaster
IPTC NewsCode
mediatopic/20000151
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
natural-disasters
KBpedia ID
NaturalDisaster
L'Humanité topic ID
catastrophes-naturelles
MeSH descriptor ID
D000077587
MeSH tree code
N06.230.100.230
NDL Authority ID
00960127
NL CR AUT ID
ph115995
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007560771505171
National Library of Latvia ID
000055855
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810693963805606
Quora topic ID
Natural-Disasters
Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID
natural-hazards
TED topic ID
natural+disaster
TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID
dogal_afetler
The Advocate tag ID
natural-disaster
The Guardian topic ID
world/natural--disasters
Topic's main category
Category:Natural disasters
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10642735
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
92127
UMLS CUI
C0027485
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept4772
Vikidia article ID
fr:Catastrophe_naturelle
WikiKids ID
Natuurramp
YSO ID
1177
Zhihu topic ID
19643723

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🔗 Connections
Examples 337
← Category combines topics 164
Subtypes 11
← Has cause 8
On focus list of Wikimedia project 3
Subclass of 3
← Facet of 3
← Has effect 3
← Main subject 3
← Category contains 2
← Cause of death 2
FactGrid item ID 1
Handled, mitigated, or managed by 1
Has cause 1
Has effect 1
Manifestation of 1
Topic has template 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Domain of saint or deity 1
← Field of work 1
← Is a list of 1
← Manner of death 1
← SNARC ID 1
← Template has topic 1
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Summary

natural disaster is a failure mode[1]. It is a type of disaster[2], natural phenomenon[3], natural risk[4], and risk source[5].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20d ago · Powerek38 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eska.pl topic ID → tg-nUmy-aR6c-7rn5
    Has effect → damage, Katastrophenfall, property damage
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'bar', 'bat_smg
    Has cause → hazard, global warming
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Eska.pl topic ID: tg-nUmy-aR6c-7rn5, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/250710346|klęska żywiołowa (#250710346)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7420|eska."
  2. 8w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has cause → hazard, global warming
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Has cause: hazard, import w/ [[Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd|🧙 Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata]]"
  3. 15w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → failure mode, type of incident
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: type of incident"
  4. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3HqF6O, 1Bar69
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → natural-disasters
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: natural-disasters, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289951964|natural disasters (#289951964)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  6. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0002153-prirodni-katastrofy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0002153-prirodni-katastrofy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  7. 23w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID → science/natural-disaster
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: science/natural-disaster"
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