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Up until now, there has not been a unified international standard for large-scale disaster or catastrophe. Many scientists from different disciplines have proposed definitions of catastrophe from their respective angles. Experts from geoscience disciplines usually use human casualties and property losses due to disaster formative factors or affected scope as the standard for classifying a catastrophe. For example, Ma et al. (1994) regard any disaster causing deaths of more than 10,000 people or a direct economic loss of over 10 billion Yuan RMB, as an extraordinarily serious disaster.
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Shi, P., Liu, Y. (2013). Chinese Paradigm of Catastrophe Risk Governance. In: Shi, P., Jaeger, C., Ye, Q. (eds) Integrated Risk Governance. IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31641-8_12
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