Wreckage

The black cloud hanging over your head, billowing up into the sky, is almost enough to jog your rattled memory. Faint echos of explosions and screaming still ring in your ears, but what happened you still can't quite recall. As you look down at your blackened legs you are relieved at knowing you can still move them. Exhaustion overwhelms you and you lay back down on the ground. Only the sinful sound of smoldering ashes can be heard, and you hope that some other sounds will soon stir in the distance and arrive where you are. In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of hazards and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability are not considered a disaster, as is the case in uninhabited regions. Hazards are routinely divided into natural or human-made, although complex disasters, where there is no single root cause, are more common in developing countries. A specific disaster may spawn a secondary disaster that increases the impact. A classic example is an earthquake that causes a tsunami, resulting in coastal flooding. This sound uses the following file from Freesound:http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=104657