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- disaster - as defined by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic, or environmental losses and impacts which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to scope using its own resources. (RA No. 10121, 1992)
- Disaster risk - The probability that a community’s structure or geographic area is to be damaged by the impact of a particular hazard, on account of its nature, construction and proximity to a hazardous area.
- Adaptive Capacity - refers to the size of a population that can survive on available resources.
- Exposure – means that people are exposed to the effects of one or more natural hazards.
- Susceptibility – understood as the disposition to suffer damage in the event of extreme natural events.
- Coping capacity – Coping capacities include measures and capabilities that are immediately available during an incident to mitigate damage.
- Adaptive capacity – understood as a long-term process that also includes structural changes.
- Acceptable Risk – Used in determining ways to reduce possible harm to people, infrastructure, services, and environmental processes.
- Residual Risk – Disaster risk that remains after efforts of disaster risk reduction. Indicator of continuing needs for the development of community capacity.
- National Disaster Risk – Intensive and extensive disaster risk that can create a potential nationwide impact either in one event or cumulative. Requires the intervention of MDRRMC in mitigation efforts.
- Extensive Disaster Risk – Disaster that’s linked to low severity. High-frequency events often occur in localized areas.
- Intensive Disaster Risk – Disaster risk that’s linked to low severity. Mid to high-frequency events that often occur in localized areas.
- Primary Effects - are direct effects manifested from the disaster event itself. (ex. water damage during a flood, collapse of buildings during an earthquake, landslide, or hurricane)
- Secondary effects – arise from primary effects. (ex. power outages due to fallen trees or damaged buildings and fires from broken gas lines.)
- Tertiary Effects – Arise from the secondary effects. It may be caused by multiple primary and tertiary effects.