Effects & reponses

• What are immediate responses to natural disasters?

  Actions taken before, during, or immediately after
• What are the immediate responses to natural disasters?

  1. Evacuate people
  2. Treat the injured and rescue
  3. Recover dead bodies
  4. Provide temporary supplies
  5. Provide food, drink, and shelter
  6. Foreign aid may be sent
• What is the first immediate response to a natural disaster?

  Evacuate people if possible
• Why is it important to recover dead bodies after a disaster?

  To prevent disease spreading
• What is provided to those without homes after a disaster?

  Food, drink, and shelter
• What type of aid may foreign governments send after a disaster?

  Aid workers, supplies, or financial donations
• What are the long-term responses to natural disasters?

  1. Repair homes or rehouse people
  2. Repair or rebuild infrastructure
  3. Reconnect utilities and communication
  4. Improve forecasting and evacuation plans
  5. Enhance building regulations
  6. Boost economic recovery
• What is the first long-term response to a natural disaster?

  Repair homes or rehouse people
• Why is it important to improve building regulations after a disaster?

  To withstand similar hazards in the future
• What are secondary effects of natural disasters?

  Effects that happen later due to primary effects
• What are the primary effects of natural disasters?

  • Destruction of buildings and roads
  • Injuries or deaths from collapses
  • Damage or contamination of crops and water
  • Damage to electricity, gas, and communication networks
• How can earthquakes trigger other hazards?

  By causing tsunamis from displaced seawater
• What can block aid and emergency vehicles after a disaster?

  Blocked roads or bridges
• How does a lack of clean water affect health after a disaster?

  It makes disease spread easier
• What economic impacts can result from natural disasters?

  Damage to businesses can cause unemployment
• What is a common long-term response to boost economic recovery?

  Promoting tourism
• What are the primary and secondary effects of natural disasters?

  Primary Effects:

  • Immediate impacts from the hazard
  • Destruction of infrastructure
  • Injuries and fatalities

  
  

  Secondary Effects:

  • Triggering of additional hazards
  • Blocked access for aid
  • Spread of disease due to sanitation issues
  • Economic downturns from business damage