Explanation:
Because of the diversity of human and physical factors that contribute to the variation of degree of vulnerability across a country, especially when the complexity of interaction between them is considered, no country or population has the same vulnerabilities to natural disasters as another. Instead, the geography of a country combined with its level of political, social and economic development interplay to dictate how hazard proximity and vulnerability combine to cause, or avoid, a disaster. Recent tectonic disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, display two contrasting, but both commandingly devastating, instances in which a predisposition to tectonic hazards and vulnerability caused great human, economic and structural devastation.
