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Natural disasters occur every day and can occur at almost at any place on the globe. Nevertheless the geological situation and the geomorphological implication make the occurrence at specific places more probable than at others. Even very rare disasters occur, such as the meteorite impact in Siberia in 2012, an event that according to statistics only happens less than once a year. But if it had been a meteorite of just several centimeters in diameter, it would have created an impact crater able to eradicate a mid-size town from the landscape.
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Ranke, U. (2016). Introduction. In: Natural Disaster Risk Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20675-2_1
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