Natural disasters typhoon,floods and earthquakes will always occur. When do, they cause not only loss of lives but also severe to buildings, roads and crops. Scientists say disasters have caused at least US 1 billion (RM 3.8 billion) in damages in the last 10 years. figure rose sharply during 1998 with the El Nino phenomena other weather conditions. In the first 11 months 1998 alone, the world's economy suffered more than US$89 billion in losses natural disasters. More than 32,000 people made homeless, say scientists from the Worldwatch Institute the US.

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