DRRR Midterms

• Also known as Department of Science and Technology or DOST
• Also known as Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology or PHIVOLCS
• Also known as National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council or NDRRMC
• Also known as Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office or MDRRMO
• Also known as Emergency Action Plan or EAP
• Also known as Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA
• Also known as Low Pressure Area or LPA
• Also known as Public Storm Warning Signal or PSWS
• Disaster

  • is a sudden, calamitous event that SERIOUSLY DISRUPTS THE FUNCTIONING OF A COMMUNITY or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources.
• Calamity

  • it is an event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress or severe affliction
• Disaster

  • it is a sudden event accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life.
• Risk is a potential of gaining or losing something of value. (Values such as physical health, social status, emotional well – being, or financial wealth).  
• Climate change

  • can increase disaster risk in a variety of ways – by altering the frequency and intensity of hazardous events, affecting vulnerability to hazards, and changing exposure patterns.
• Environmental Degradation

  • it is both a driver and consequence of disasters, reducing the capacity of the environment to meet social and ecological needs.
• Globalized Economic Development

  • it resulted in increased polarization between the rich and poor on a global scale.
• Poverty and Inequality

  • is both a driver and consequence of disasters, and the processes that further disaster risk related poverty are permeated with inequality.
• Poorly-Planned and Managed Urban Development

  • A new wave of urbanization is unfolding in hazard-exposed countries and with it, new opportunities for resilient investment emerge.
• Weak Governance

  • are investment environments in which public sector actors are unable or unwilling to assume their roles and responsibilities in protecting rights, providing basic services and public services.
• Hazards are potentially damaging physical events, phenomena or human activities that cause loss of life, injury, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation.
• Primary Effects occur as a result of the process itself.

  For example, water damage during a flood or collapse of buildings during an earthquake, landslide, or hurricane.
• Secondary Effects occur only because a primary effect has caused them. For example, fires ignited as a result of earthquakes, disruption of electrical power and water service as a result of an earthquake, flood, or hurricane, or flooding caused by a landslide into a lake or river.
• Tertiary Effects are long-term effects that are set off as a result of a primary event. These include things like loss of habitat caused by a flood, permanent changes in the position of river channel caused by flood, crop failure caused by a volcanic eruption etc.
• A hazard is a source or a situation with the potential for harm in terms of human injury or ill-health, damage to property, damage to the environment, or a combination of these.​
• Flammable

  
• Radioactive

  
• High Voltage

  
• Slippery Road

  
• No Entry for Pedestrian

  
• Flood Prone Area

  
• Explosive

  
• Emergency Management aims to reduce or avoid the potential losses from hazards, assure prompt and appropriate assistance to damaged materials, and achieve rapid and effective recovery. ​
• Mitigation

  • Activities designed to alleviate the effects of a major disaster/emergency or long-term activity minimizing the potentially adverse effects of future disaster in affected areas.
• Preparedness

  • Activities, programs, and systems that exist prior to an emergency and that are used to support and enhance response to an emergency or disaster.
• Response

  • Activities and programs designed to address the immediate and short-term effects of the onset of an emergency or disaster such as artifacts salvage and relocation within 48 – 72 hours.​
• Recovery

  • Long-term activities and programs beyond the initial crisis period of an emergency or disaster designed to return all systems to normal status or to reconstitute these systems to a new, less vulnerable condition.
• Geological Hazard

  It is an extreme natural event in the crust of the Earth that pose a threat to life and property, for example, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis (tidal waves) and landslides.​
• Primary Earthquake Hazards

  • They are the direct results of the movements of the ground.​

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• Ground Shaking is a term used to describe the vibration of the ground during an earthquake. 
• Magnitude a number, which is a measure of energy released in an earthquake.
• Intensity the measure of the strength of shaking during the earthquake.