Natural disasters and their impacts The risk from natural events is constantly increasing and more hurricanes and floods are expected to result from global climate change. Currently, on average, natural disasters leave around 4 million people homeless and kill 128,000 people worldwide every year, not to mention the damage they cause and the cost it causes to the world economy. Every year, developing countries accept $35 billion in natural disaster damages from the rest of the world. There is no doubt that natural disasters have a significant impact on the world, both developing and developed. The magnitude of this effect will always depend on several factors, for example in which part of the world the danger occurs, for example a developed or developing country. This can determine how prepared the area where it occurs is, and therefore how severe the impact is on the country, because obviously almost always the more prepared a country is for an event, the less drastic it will be when it finally hits, as they can take adequate precautions to try to prevent it from causing complete devastation. Not only will this be different in the two countries, but it will also change public knowledge, once again disadvantaging less developed countries. include earthquakes, volcanoes and tropical cyclones. For each of these risks I will look at the preparation undertaken by each country and the overall risk management for a former…paper country…on the run. The technology and communications between people in the MEDC's achievements far surpass those of other poorer countries, and so people are infinitely more prepared for crises like these, and will have a warning, often, long before it actually occurs . All of these things add to the reasons why the impact of disasters varies between the two country examples, and why some devastate some countries and leave others virtually untouched, even if they have the same characteristics. This is why the death toll in one country can be exorbitant for a minor event, while on the other side of the world there can be few casualties from something much more drastic. However it is not the final deciding point and there are other things to consider that may be important in deciding how bad it can become, but it is definitely a problem.