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Disaster area

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A diasater area is a region or locale heavily damaged by either natural events (such as hurricanes, tsumanis, floods, earthquakes), or by war, which would badly affect the population living there (loss of energy, food, services, and increasing the risk of disease, etc.). Declarations of Disaster Areas opens up the affected areas for aid.