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désastreux

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disastrous

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un drame, une tragédie

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a tragedy

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tragique, dramatique

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tragic

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une catastrophe

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a catastrophe

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catastrophique

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catastrophic

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un cataclysme

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a cataclysm

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toucher une région

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to affect a region

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une zone à haut risque

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a hight-risk area

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frapper

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to strike

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faire des ravages

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to wreak havoc

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éviter, prévenir une catastrophe

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to avert a disaster

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l’ampleur du sinistre,l’étendue du sinistre

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the extent of the disaster, the scope of the disaster

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très mauvais temps

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severe weather

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prévoir le temps

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to predict the weather

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les prévisions

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the weather forecast

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les dégats

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damage

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abîmer qch

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to damage sth

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causer des dégats

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to do damage

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dévaster une région

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to devastate a region

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la zone la plus durement frappée

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the worst-hit area

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être déclaré zone sinistrée

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to be declared a disaster area

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déclarer l’état d’urgence

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to declare state of emergency

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un sinistré

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a disaster victim

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faire 25 morts

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to claim 25 lives

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le nombre de victimes
the death tool
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une victime
a casualty
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un cadavre
a corpse
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fuir son domicile
to flee one's home
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une personne déplacée
a displaced person
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la sécheresse
drought
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une zone frappée par la sécheresse
a drought-stricken area
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la famine
a famine
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avoir faim
to be hungry
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la faim
hunger
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mourir de soif
to die of thirst
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mourir de faim
to starve to death
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risquer de mourir de faim
to be threatened with starvation
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la malnutrition
malnutrition
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souffrir de malnutrition
to be malnourished
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une vague de froid
a cold spell
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une canicule
a heat wave
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une tempête, un orage
a storm
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une tornade
a tornado
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un ouragan, un cyclone
a hurricane, a cyclone
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un typhon
a typhoon
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balayer la thailande
to sweep across thailand
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le tonnerre
thunder
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les éclaires, la foudre
lightning
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un éclair
a flash of lightning
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de forte précipitations
heavy rainfall
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des pluies torrentielles
torrential rain
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une innondation
a flood
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des innondations
flooding
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une crue subite
a flash flood
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une zone inondable
a flood-risk area
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déborder
to overflow
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un tsunami
a tsunami
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un raz-de-marée
a tidal wave
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un glissement de terrain
a landslide
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une coulée de boue
a mudslide
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une tempête de neige
a snowstorm
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une avalanche
an avalanche
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la glace ou le verglas
ice
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congère
snowdrift
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un tremblement de terre
an earthquake
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une faille
a fault
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une ligne de faille
a fault line
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l'épicentre
the epicentre
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secousse tellurique
earth tremor
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l'échelle de richter
the richter scale
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la magnitude 6
of magnitude 6
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les décombres
rubble
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être prisonnier/ enterré sous les décombres
to be trapped/buried in rubble
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être porté disparu
to be reported missing
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pénurie d'eau potable
the lack of drinking water
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la propagation des maladies
the spread of diseases
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se propager
to spread
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un volcan
a volcano
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un cratère
a crater
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entrer en éruption
to erupt
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une éruption
an eruption
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la lave
lava
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une coulée de lave
a lava flow
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les cendres
ash
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un incendie
a fire
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des incendies de forêt
wildfire
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feu de brousse
bush fire
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sauver
to rescue
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un secouriste
a rescuer
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une équipe de secours
a rescue party
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un pompier
a fireman
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évacuer
to evacuate
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un évacué
an evacuee
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être en sécurité
to be safe
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sain et sauf
safe and sound
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sortir indemne de qch
to escape unscathed
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survivre
to survive
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un survivant
a survivor
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une ONG
an NGO
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une organisation caritative
a charity organization
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une organisation humanitaire
a relief organization
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un travailleur humanitaire
a relief worker
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aide humanitaire
humanitarian aid
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aide d'urgence
emergency aid
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aide alimentaire
food aid
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fournir de l'aide
to provide aid
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assurer qch
to insure sth
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un assureur
an insurer
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une compagnie d'assurances
an insurance company
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une indemnité
a compensation
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indemniser qn de qch
to compensate sb for sth
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se faire indemniser
to get compensation
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le principe de compensation
the precautionary principle

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