types of hazard and its various impact

• types of natural hazards: geological hazards, biological hazards, hydrometeorological hazards
• "ge" is a greek word that means earth
• geological hazards: occurs in the movement of the earth's tectonic plate and it is considered as normal hazards and their process occur as irregular events with direct interaction with the movement
• "bios" is a greek word that means life
• biological hazard: a process or phenomenon of organic origin conveyed by biological vectors/agents, including exposure to pathogenic microorganisms, toxins and bioactive substances
• "hydro" means water while "meteoros" means sky
• hydrometeorological hazard- related to atmospheric, hydrological or oceanographic in nature and can potentially cause loss of life and damage property and disrupt normal living conditions and provisions for services
• types of human induced hazard: technological hazard, environmental hazard, and socio-economic, political, security hazards
• technological hazard: gives little or no warning to precede the incident. originate from industrial accidents, dangerous procedures, infrastructure failures of certain human activities which may cause the loss of life or injury, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation
• environmental hazard: events that pose a threat from the surrounding environment encompassing the broad spectrum of acute and chronic effects of industrial, agricultural and naturally occurring microorganism, chemicals and radiation in our soil, water, air, food, and wastes
• socio-economic, political, security hazards: caused by criminal and human violence which pose threat to the security of a great number of people and may be motivated by political or economic reasons
• types of impact: physical impact, psychological impact, socio-cultural impact, economic impact
• physical impact- death of people, destruction and loss of vital infrastructure like transport systems, roads, bridgest, power lines and communication lines
• psychological impact- grief and psychological trauma, martial conflicts, depression due to loss of loved ones and properties, chronic anxiety among children
• socio-cultural impact: displacement of population, loss of cultural identity, forced adoption of new sets of culture, ethnic conflicts
• economic impact: 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 valuable items like jewelries, furniture, and appliances
• environmental impact: loss of forest due to forest fires, fresh water due to salination (intrusion of salt water to fresh water sources), disturbances of biodiversity, loss of natural rivers and other

  tributaries
• biological impact: epidemic to people flora and fauna, chronic and permanent illness due to nuclear radiation, mental disorder developed from consumption of contaminated foods, proliferation of different viral and bacterial diseases