landslide and sinkholes

Cards (7)

  • mitigation - involves acting to reduce the risk of life or property damage from a potentially dangerous incident
  • mitigation - process or result of making something less severe, dangerous, painful, harsh or damaging
  • mitigation - actions taken to prevent or reduce the risk of life, social and economic, and natural resources from natural hazards
  • actions or plans to protect human lives and properties
    1. develop and rehearse a family plan
    2. include a communication plan
    3. put emergency supplies together
    4. know how to shut off your appliances
    5. duplicate important documents
    6. make a detailed inventory
  • landslides - also known as countryslips
  • sinkhole - also known as a cenote, swallet, swallow hole or doline
  • sinkhole - depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of surface layer that collapsed.