Take the Celiac Disease Quiz to learn the causes, symptoms, and treatments for the condition caused by an allergy to gluten, a digestive irritant found in many common foods. Read more: Celiac Disease (Celiac Sprue) Quiz: Test Your Digestive Disease IQ.
Natural disasters fall into three broad groups: 1. Those caused by movements of the Earth. These occur with the minimum amount of warning and include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. They are difficult to predict and impossible to stop.
In most years, flooding causes more deaths and damage than any other hydrometeorological phenomenon. In any year it is common for three-quarters of all Federally declared disaster declarations to be due, at least in part, to flooding.