Disaster definition

Disaster means the occurrence of one or more events which, either separately or cumulatively, mean that the Services, or a material part thereof will be unavailable (or could reasonably be anticipated to be unavailable) for the period specified in the Call Off Order Form (for the purposes of this definition the “Disaster Period”);

Disaster means a sudden emergency occurrence beyond the control of the licensee, whether natural, technological, or man-made, that renders the licensee unable to operate the facility or makes the facility uninhabitable.

Disaster means an occurrence or threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from a natural or human-made cause, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, snowstorm, ice storm, tornado, windstorm, wave action, oil spill, water contamination, utility failure, hazardous peacetime radiological incident, major transportation accident, hazardous materials incident, epidemic, air contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, or hostile military action or paramilitary action, or similar occurrences resulting from terrorist activities, riots, or civil disorders.

Examples of Disaster in a sentence

• In the event of a complete loss of service or in the event of a Disaster, the Service Provider shall immediately invoke the BCDR Plan (and shall inform the Purchaser promptly of such invocation along with the anticipated maximum period of outage).

• Neither Party is liable to the other Party for any delay in performing, or other failure to perform, its obligations under this Contract to the extent that such delay or failure is a result of Force Majeure, subject in relation to the Service Provider, its compliance with its obligations in Schedule 17 (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery).

• The Disaster Recovery Plan shall be invoked only upon the occurrence of a Disaster.

• The purpose of the Program Disaster Recovery Plan is to document the process specific to the State to restore operations after a natural disaster or a disaster resulting from sabotage, negligence, or other major events.

• Mandatory emergency management training shall be required to comply with the California State Chancellor’s Office recommendations identified in the Disaster Resistant Community College training matrix.

More Definitions of Disaster

Disaster means a catastrophe, mishap, calamity or grave occurrence in any area, arising from natural or man made causes, or by accident or negligence which results in substantial loss of life or human suffering or damage to, and destruction of, property, or damage to, or degradation of, environment, and is of such a nature or magnitude as to be beyond the coping capacity of the community of the affected area;

Disaster means human-caused, technological or natural occurrences, such as fire, flood, drought, earthquake, tornado, windstorm, hazardous substance or nuclear power plant accident or incident, which threaten the public peace, health and safety of the people or which damage or destroy public or private property. The term includes terrorism, enemy attack, sabotage, or other hostile action from without the state.

Disaster means an event that results in serious harm to the safety, health or welfare of people or in widespread damage to property;

Disaster shall have the meaning given in paragraph 2.9 of the Order Form;

Disaster means an event that makes it impossible for Contractor to perform the Work out of its regular facility or facilities, and may include, but is not limited to, natural disasters, fire or terrorist attacks.

Disaster means an occurrence beyond the control of a licensee, whether natural, technological, or man-made, that renders a home uninhabitable on a temporary, extended, or permanent basis.

Disaster means the occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or man-made cause, including fire, flood, earthquake, wind, storm, wave action, oil spill or other water contamination, volcanic activity, epidemic, air contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, riot, hostile military or paramilitary action, extreme heat, other public calamity requiring emergency action, or energy emergency.