According to the Network of Social Studies on Disaster Prevention in Latin America, risks are considered to be disturbing agents such as geological, hydrometeorological, industrial chemical, ecological, sanitary, anthropogenic, and aerospace. Some of these are considered natural and others are socio-organizational and socially constructed. Due to the compilation of data before and during the 20th century, the impacts of disasters have required the attention of scholars, researchers, study centers, and authorities close to the affected populations, although not always in a timely manner, which is why several and varied forms of prevention, assistance, and recovery have been developed. In recent decades, in accordance with the results of Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IGRM), a new, more specific hypothesis has been introduced, with more advanced tools: Strategic Disaster Risk Management (SRM).

Today, thanks to technological and scientific updates, we have the tools that are already used in developed countries, such as the Internet, big data, algorithms, drones for mapping risk zones, augmented reality and its risk-vulnerability studies, which allow us to know in advance, as possible and necessary, the disturbing phenomena that have been intensifying and becoming more frequent. Therefore, during the development of this work, the endemic vulnerability of Mexico and Latin America is discussed, pointing out the most pressing challenges of Disaster Risk Management (DRM).