3RD QUARTER

• Disaster


  A sudden, calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, destruction, and devastation to life and property
• Hazard


  An event or occurrence that has the potential to cause harm to life and damage property and the environment
• Capacities


  Positive resources and abilities helpful to individuals, families, and communities in mitigating, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from the hazard impact
• Damage caused by disasters


  Influences the mental, socio-economic, political, and cultural state of the affected area
• Vulnerability


  Conditions determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community, school, or certain area in a locality to the impact of hazards
• Disaster Risk


  The probability of harmful consequences or expected loss of lives, people injured, livelihoods, disruption of economic activities, and damages to the environment as a result of interactions between natural or human-induced hazards and vulnerable/capable conditions
• this refers to SERious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, materiak econimic or enivronmental losses that exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources?

  DISASTER