How can natural disasters produce social and cultural change?

Natural Disasters can destroy the whole communities, afterwards people often take precautions for the future to lessen the effects. People may adopt new constructions methods for better protections.

the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.