Natech Disasters

With technology becoming more interwined with people, societies, and our environment, natech disasters have garnered increasing attention. A natech disaster occurs when a natural disaster causes not only direct harm, but indirect harm through technological secondary effects. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused direct harm, causing infrastructure damage and floodings. However, the earthquake and tsunami also produced technological secondary effects, causing a partial nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.