‘Natural disasters are often not natural disasters, but in fact human disasters. Discuss this statement according to seismic events’

Seismic events are occurrences in which energy is briefly released in the Earth's crust, resulting in a series of seismic waves which move through the crust. In some cases, the energy can be intense enough that it is felt in the form of an earthquake, while in other seismic events, the energy is so mild that it can only be identified with specialized equipment. A human disaster is an event directly and principally caused by one or more identifiable deliberate or negligent human action. Whereas a natural disaster is a natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life. A disaster is often considered a human disaster if it has been caused by human interference or activity that has made the threat of seismic events worse, by measurements such as amount of deaths or cost to an economy.
In every day society humans take shortcuts in the process of construction or urban planning with the short term benefits of saving time and money. However sadly this means the standard of resistance buildings have against seismic events is not enough to withstand the pressures they bring, such as the ground moving or liquefaction. Generally in MEDC’s at risk of earthquakes buildings and the landscape is often built to be earthquake ‘proof’ but only up to a certain magnitude, meaning of a rare earthquake above the expected magnitude hits a built up area disaster strikes. Whereas in LEDC’s often the population and the government do not have the available resources to make a building earthquake resistant to any level causing a catastrophic disaster more often than not when a seismic event hits. This means that human interference increases the chance of disaster during and after a seismic event.