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• are events that pose threat, danger or risk to any element exposed to them

  hazards
• are those that are caused by physical and biological elements in the environment and these hazards are inevitable.

  natural hazards
• 1.      are those caused by factors that are generally traced to human errors , intent or negligence, or glitches in technology


  technological or man made hazards
• – are events that pose threat, danger or risk to any element exposed to them. Hazards are possibilities .They can strike anywhere and anytime. And also hazards result in disasters if a community is left both exposed and vulnerable to the hazard.

  hazards
• are those that are caused by physical and biological elements in the environment and these hazards are inevitable.

  natural hazards
• are considered one of the most powerful of the natural hazards because they travel across a wide area that last a longer time and will create more destructions

  typhoons
• which the common tao did not understand the meaning of such word so what they do is just they vacuated near the beach area and when the typhoon hit and the storm surge starts to run in the shoreline,

  storm surge
• such as smog or desertification that arise through the interaction of natural processes and human activities.

  quasi-natural hazard
• are those caused by factors that are generally traced to human errors , intent or negligence, or glitches in technology.


  technological or man made hazards
• This can be assessed by the measurement obtained from scientific measurements. Sometimes, scaling can vary depending on the reference tables used per country.

  magnitude
• the hazard to occur in an area is important because it tells its proneness to taht hazard. This is usually, but not always, associated with the area’s geographical location on Earth or its topographical condition.

  frequency
• either short or long

  duration of impact
• whether the exposed elements receives the likely disaster directly or indirectly. Sometimes, other elements that are not visibly present in the site of event also suffer some degree of consequences because all communities interact within and outside their territory.


  causality of events
• an area surrounding the basin of the Pacific Ocean where many volcanoes have formed.

  pacific ring of fire
• is a crack or break in Earth’s crust along which rocks have moved.

  fault
• which cause the ground to move or shake. This sudden shaking of the ground is called an?

  earthquake
• Some of the disastrous earthquakes in the Philippines are located in the

  philippines fault zone
• it explains why an average of 20 typhoons hit the country every year.

  typhoon belt
• like death of people, destruction and loss of vital infrastructure like transport system, roads, bridges, power lines and communication lines.

  physical impact
• like grief and psychological trauma, marital conflicts, depression due to loss of loved ones and properties, and chronic anxiety among children severely affected.

  psychological impact
• – like displacement of populations, loss of cultural identity, forced adoption of new sets of culture, ethnic conflicts.

  socio-cultural impact
• like  loss of job due to displacement, loss of harvest and livestock, loss of farms, fish cages and other sources of living, loss of money and other valuables like jewelries, furniture and appliances

  economic impact
• like loss of forest due to forest fires, loss of fresh water due to sanitation, disturbance of biodiversity, loss of natural rivers and other tributaries

  environmental impact
• like epidemic to people now became covid pandemic which greatly affect human lives, chronic and permanent illness due to nuclear radiation like cancer, mental disorder developed from consumption of contaminated  foods, and proliferation of different viral and bacterial diseases

  biological impact