Cor 010

Cards (67)

  • Is a serious disruption occuring over a short or long period that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss
    Disaster
  • natural phenomenon that may cause loss of life, injury or other health
    Natural disaster
  • Are the consequences of technological or human hazards
    Human made disaster
  • An overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry
    Flood
  • A large ocean wave that is caused by sudden motion on the ocean floor
    Tsunami
  • A natural disaster of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water
    Drough
  • a range of ground movement, suchh as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows
    Landslide
  • The release of hot magma, volvanic ash and/or gases from a volcano
    Volcanic eruption
  • Even with strict building fire codes, people still perish needlessly in fires
    Fire(urban)
  • The escape of solids, liquids, or gases that can hard people, other living organism, property or the environment
    Hazardous material spills
  • An event involving significant release of radio activity to the environment and which leads to major undesirable consequences to people
    Nuclear anddd radiation accidents
  • a potentially destructive physical phenomenon, event, or human activity
    Hazard
  • When hazard strikes, not everyone can be equally affected by its dangers
    Exposure
  • Refers to the lack of capacity to flee hazard exposure
    Vulnerability
  • These are the basic factors that help a community reduce its vulnerabilities, prevent risks, and recover from disasters
    Capacity
  • When combined, hazards and vulnerability
    Risk
  • Risk=?
    Hazards x vulnerability
  • Can increase disaster risk in a variety of ways by altering the frequency
    Climate change
  • It is both a driver and consequence of disasters, reducing the capacity of the environment to meet social and ecological needs
    Environmental degradation
  • It resulted in increased polarization between the rich and poor on a global scale
    Globalized economic development
  • Calamiities are phenomena that cause great physical damage in a community infrastructures
    Physical perspective
  • Victims of disaster may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and other serious mental health conditions
    Psychological perspective
  • Filipinos are generally know as "matiisin", resourceful, helpful, optimistic, and prayerful
    socio-cultural perspective
  • Disaster affect the economic condition of a community because they reduce local and international trade
    Economic perspective
  • Natural disaster are commonly though to be less politically argumentative than armed conflicts
    Political perspective
  • The disturbing effects caused by a prevent kind of disasters or virus in an epidemic or pandemic level is known as __
    Biological perspective
  • may be determined by aspects such as population density levels, remoteness of a settlement, the site,designs and materials used for critical infrastructure and for housing
    physical vulnerability
  • refers to the inability of people to with stand adverse impacts to hazard due the characteristic inherent in social interaction, institution
    social vulnerability
  • the poor are usually more vulnerable to disaster because they lock the resources to build sturdy structure and put other engineering measures in place to protect themselves from being negatively impacted by disasters
    economic vulnerability
  • natural resource depletion and resource degradation are the key aspects of ___
    environmental vulnerability
  • an extreme natural event in the crust of the earth that pose a threat to life and property
    geologic hazard
  • caused by extreme meteorological and climate event
    hydro-meteorological hazard
  • things that can interfere with the bodies ability to transport and utilize oxygen, or that have negative toxicological effect on the human bodies
    atmospheric hazard
  • events that could cause widespread loss of life, or significant environmental harm, resulting also in major reputational or financial damage
    catastrophic hazard
  • occur quickly and with little warning
    rapid onset hazard
  • occur as a result of the process itself
    primary effect
  • occur only because of primary effect has caused them
    secondary effect
  • are long term effect that are set off as a result of a primary effect
    tertiary effect
  • is the shaking of the surface of the earth resulting from a sudden release of energy and the earth's lithosphere that create seismic wave
    earthquake
  • first main earthquake hazard
    ground shaking