ABSTRACT
From time immemorial, natural phenomena have surpassed our expectations, and man has tried to protect himself against the outbursts of fury of the forces of nature. Disasters have always had an impact on the imagination and have not been forgotten thanks to witness accounts. For example, letters from Pliny the Younger gave an account of the destruction of Pompeii by Vesuvius. The first examples of risks management are very ancient. However, natural phenomena were, for a very long time, perceived as the expression of divine wrath (until the end of the eighteenth century in Europe).
