What is the common natural disaster in China?

Because China has a vast territory, large geographical distance, diverse terrain, and diverse climate, China is the country with the largest number of natural disasters in the world, and China has a wide range of natural disasters. Do you know what natural disasters there are in China?

I. Common meteorological disasters in China

There are more than 20 types of meteorological disasters , and the following are the main factors affecting our country:

1 heavy rains: flash floods, flooded rivers, water in cities;

2 Drought: droughts in agriculture, forestry, and grasslands, and water shortages in industry, cities, and rural areas;

3 high temperature, heat waves: high heat, human diseases, burns, crops mature;

4 Tropical Cyclones: Storms, Heavy Rain, Floods;

5 Freezing damage: frost, freezing damage to crops and livestock, freezing of water pipes and oil pipes;

6 Earthquake: huge economic losses and casualties;

7 Snow damage: Snowstorm, snowfall;

8 wind damage: inverted tree, inverted housing, rollover, capsize, tornado, local catastrophic disaster;

9 Thunderbolt: Lightning strike casualties;

10 dense fog: human disease, traffic obstruction;

11 Sandstorm: death to humans and animals, buildings collapsed agricultural production, air pollution, loss of topsoil.

Second, geological disasters

Geological disasters are natural disasters that are the main cause of geological dynamic activity or abnormal changes in geological environment. For example, collapse, landslides, mudslides, ground fissures, ground subsidence, ground fissures, soil erosion, land desertification, etc.

Third, crop biological disasters

Crop biological disaster refers to diseases of crops and forests, pests, weeds, and rodents. In the case of crops, disease, insects, grass, and rats each year take away 50 kg of food and other food from the mouth of everyone in the country . There are more than 1,200 species of crop pests and diseases in China , as well as rodent pests and vicious weeds. If pests and diseases occur and become a disaster, it will have a major impact on China's basic industry, agriculture. Including a variety of pests and diseases, will have a great adverse impact on the growth of crops, even when serious particles are not received.

Fourth, forest fire

Forest fires refer to forest fires that lose human control, freely spread and expand within forest lands, and cause certain damages and losses to forests, forest ecosystems and humans. Forest fires are natural disasters that are characterized by sudden and severe destruction and difficult to deal with.

The information in this article comes from the Internet and was reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.