Question: Do we Natural Dissters? If so why?

Clay Robinson answered on 28 Apr 2016:

Natural disasters are a part of living on this planet: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mudflows (landslides), wildfires, and the like.
Each of these has a natural cause because of forces that are at work in the earth (earthquakes and volcanoes), and in the atmosphere (floods, hurricanes, tornadoes), and on the land (mudflows and wildfires).
Sometimes what humans do can make natural disasters worse, especially with floods, mudflows and wildfires.
When we build in floodplains and on coastlands, the damage due to floods will be much worse because more people live in those areas. Building in these places also tends to cause more erosion.
Mudflows are more common and cause more damage when people remove trees and other vegetation to build houses on the sides of steep hills or mountains. The vegetation changed the way the water moved through the soil and limited the frequency and severity of mudflows.
We do not like fires because fires burn the structures we build: homes, businesses, schools, and other things. So we put out fires, even when they happen in forests and in rangeland. But when we put out fires, we stop a natural process. Fire is nature’s way of getting rid of dead plant materials on the land surface, and also of killing plants that are not native, or that move into an area and take over. When we put out fires, those other plants choke out the desirable trees and grasses, and the amount of dead plant materials on the land surface accumulates. Then when a fire happens, it is much larger, much hotter, and much more destructive than if we had allowed small fire to burn every few years.