Identify a current natural or man-made disaster in the news within the last 5 years.ie Hurricane Katrina • Discuss the following for that certain disaster within the last 5 years. Answer this for that disaster and not in general terms. 1. The type of disaster 2. Characteristics of the disaster — Use the textbook for these characteristics and relate them to your disaster. How can your disaster be described using the characteristics. 3. Application of disaster management stages — Use the word stages and apply to your disaster — what happened during your disaster.