Negative consequences of disasters in terms of assets lost, damaged or affected. First perceived in physical terms, i.e. miles of roads, hectares affected either in agricultural land, forests or environmental reserves, production already completed but lost as tons of agricultural products, numbers of industrial production units; or infrastructure affected as number of health services' facilities, number of bed, schools or number or classrooms destroyed, etc. Part of the direct damage, although not quantified specifically in terms of monetary value, are lives lost, injured persons and the primary, secondary or tertiary affected population.