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Because definitions:
Can define how we look at an event or a hazard and what to do about it, if anything.
Defining by Characteristics
1. Length of forewarning
2. Magnitude of impact
we listen to them.
(Kroll-Smith and Gunter
in Quarantelli, 1998a)
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injuries to a community.
(FEMA, 1990)
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A Modified Definition
A disaster is. . . an event associated with the
events. . .
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A Comprehensive Definition
A disaster is a nonroutine event that
significant . . .
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