| Hazards | Disasters |
| (i) Hazards are phenomena that pose a threat to people, structural or economic assets. | (i) A hazard becomes disaster when it affects human population, settlement and their activities. |
| (ii) High rainfall is a hazard. | (ii) When high rainfall causes floods, it is a disaster. |
| (iii) Hazard is defined as a potentially damaging physical event, social and economic disruption or environmental widespread human, material or environmental | (iii) A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning degradation of a society, causing or threatening to cause losses which render the affected community unable to cope using its own resources. |
| (iv) Hazard is result of natural process. | (iv) Disaster is an anthropocentric concept. |
