Every day, watching videos on the Internet or including news on any TV channel, we are faced with terrible facts that suggest that the most incredible events that often lead to human death occur all over the world every minute. However, what do we know about emergencies? How are they classified? Let's try to figure it out.
An emergency is events that occurred in a certain territory as a result of disasters, natural or natural events, accidents or other disasters that entail material and natural damage, human loss and disruption of human life. Their types are described in detail below.
Emergencies (EM) are conditionally classified into several categories. First of all, they are of a conflict and non-conflict nature. The latter include environmental and natural phenomena, as well as man-made emergencies. Conflict situations are conditionally called social explosions, military clashes, terrorist acts, violent actions and rampant crime, religious and ethnic conflicts, economic crises, etc.
According to the speed of distribution, emergency situations are divided into slowly and moderately spreading, quickly and suddenly arising. For example, emergencies of a sudden nature can be considered terrorist acts, and slowly developing ones, the duration of which lasts for many months and years, should include such as, for example, anthropogenic activities in the Aral Sea zone.
In terms of distribution, emergencies are local and local, regional and federal, territorial, as well as cross-border. The main differences in this category are characterized by the number of victims, the amount of property damage and the measure of disability for living organisms. Local situations include situations where no more than 10 people become victims, while the event zone should not go beyond the territory of an object of social or industrial significance.
Local emergencies are characterized by the number of victims over 10, but not more than 50 people, or violation of the living conditions for at least 100, but not more than 300 people. This incident should not go beyond the boundaries of the settlement.
Regional emergencies mean the number of victims no more than 500 people or violation of living conditions for a similar number of people. The scale of its distribution should not cross the borders of the state.
Transboundary or global emergencies include situations that, in the scale and number of destruction, go far beyond the borders of one state and can have dire consequences for the entire planet.
It is worth noting that emergencies can be created both artificially and naturally. In other words, they can arise as a result of human actions or be dictated by natural phenomena that have arisen.
There are also so-called wartime emergencies. The meaning of this type of emergency lies in armed conflicts between a number of countries, attacks on cities, the use of weapons of mass destruction, the seizure of individual targets and strategically important points.
In the history of mankind there has never been stability in this regard. Over the past 20 years alone, up to 40 major armed conflicts and tens of thousands of small military emergencies have occurred in the world. Vivid examples of such events in the 20th century are the following: World War I and World War II, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Afghan war, the uprising in Hungary, the Caribbean crisis, the Persian Gulf war and many other military conflicts.
The story tells that in the hostilities it is the civilians who die and suffer more, and the more terrible the weapons become, the more victims thereafter. Thus, humanity needs to draw some conclusions, but we often neglect this, as a result of which we ourselves suffer.