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When the hazard occurs it may then be called an event, accident, emergency, incident, or disaster. The study and monitoring of geo-hazards helps us to better prepare ourselves and respond to these geological events when they do occur. Geo-hazards can be small features that have an impact only on their local area such as a small landslide that partially blocks a road or track through to large earthquakes that affect entire cities. They can also be very large events that have a widespread impact such as large tsunami. The paper describes, as Geo-hazards are geological and environmental conditions and involve long-term or short-term geological processes. Geo-hazards can be relatively small features, but they can also attain huge dimensions (e.g., submarine or surface landslide) and affect local and regional socio-economy to a large extent (e.g., tsunamis). The processes that have formed the earth continually act on or beneath its surface. The movement of plates in the earth's crust and local concentrations of heat are a continuing source of hazards to people and their structures. The results of the extensive research on geologic hazards that has been conducted to date have been translated into a form accessible to non-scientists, and small-scale maps displaying historic, actual, and potential hazard levels are available. The geologic hazard assessment techniques, most of which are well beyond the technical, temporal, and budgetary constraints of integrated development planning studies, it presents and discusses existing information which can and should be used during the Preliminary understanding. This information is sufficient to show, whether a hazard constitutes a significant problem in development area and, day to day life.