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Are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and forest fires considered weather?
They are all naturally occurring phenomena, but are they classified the same?
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October 12, 2009 08:28 PM
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The answer is no. Here is the definition of weather from the dictionary below.
"The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc."
Forest fires,volcanic eruptions,and earthquakes are natural disasters. They can effect the weather, but are not considered weather. For example: Forest fires can create cloudiness , but is not considered weather. When Mt.St. Helen's blew up,everything went dark from the ash.Natural disasters effect the weather, but are not weather.
I looked up several definitions but they were all almost identical to this one.
This is the definition of natural disaster:
"Any event or force of nature that has catastrophic consequences, such as avalanche, earthquake, flood, forest fire, hurricane, lightning, tornado, tsunami, and volcanic eruption."
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"The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc."
Forest fires,volcanic eruptions,and earthquakes are natural disasters. They can effect the weather, but are not considered weather. For example: Forest fires can create cloudiness , but is not considered weather. When Mt.St. Helen's blew up,everything went dark from the ash.Natural disasters effect the weather, but are not weather.
I looked up several definitions but they were all almost identical to this one.
This is the definition of natural disaster:
"Any event or force of nature that has catastrophic consequences, such as avalanche, earthquake, flood, forest fire, hurricane, lightning, tornado, tsunami, and volcanic eruption."
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October 12, 2009 07:06 PM
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Forest fires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are natural disasters when loss of lives, money or environmental stability is the product of these occurrences. They might effect the weather but are not considered weather.
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