Abstract: The explosive growth of economic activities in the coastal zone and human exploration of marine resources led to rapid increases of the exposure of human life and property to the threat of marine disasters. As a result, marine disaster prevention, reduction and mitigation become an increasing challenge facing the human society. A risk is a vulnerable condition which may turn into a disaster. Understanding the vulnerability of a region and building resilience are steps that can be taken to prevent a risk from turning into a disaster or to minimize disaster impact. Risk management becomes disaster management when a disaster is eminent, occurring or has occurred. For an eminent disaster, such as those associated with a landfalling tropical cyclone, disaster management decisions depend on solid information from disaster prediction to social, economic, and geographic conditions. During and shortly after the occurrence of a disaster, search and rescue becomes the core of action, followed by recovery and resilience building measures.