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Hazard
Is a threat or harm
Disaster
Is any events that cause widespread
Disasters risk
May be specific to a location or condition of a community
Natural disasters
Are devastating outcome that result from natural hazard
Man-made disasters
Also called technological disaster
Primary effects
Are direct situation arising from the disaster itself
Secondary effects
Our situations resulting from the primary effects
Tertiary effects
Are those that are not experienced as a disaster
People
After a disaster takes place the number of casualties is assessed
Buildings and infrastructure
Who's buildings and another infrastructure are important
IFRC
International federation of red cross
Physical elements
These are the elements that are tangible or can be visually seenThese are the elements that are tangible or can be visually seen
Socioeconomic elements
This comprise the institutional and government system that dictate the kind of wellbeing and lifestyle of communities
Environmental elements
This includes the ecosystems and the natural process that are exposed to hazard event
Economy
Severity of a disaster
Environment
Cause negative effect
Physical perspective
Tangible or visible
Psychological perspective
People's emotional
Sociocultural perspective
Center on the response
Economic perspective
Description of economies
Political perspective
Government service
Biological perspective
Potential for infection
Natural hazard
Cause by physical and biological elements
Man-made hazard
Cause by factors that are generally traced to human error
Profiling hazard
Predicting the possible disasters
Magnitude or strength of the event
Assessed by the measurements
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Duration of impact
Varies in duration
Casualty of events
The impact of hazards can also be assessed based on the casualty events
Hazard prone areas
Location where a natural hazard is likely to happen
Ground shaking
The shaking of the ground is caused by the passage of seismic wave
Ground rupture
ground movement happen on a fault line and breaks through the surface
Liquefaction
Seismic shaking occurs causes loose material in the soil
Earthquake
Induced ground subsidence
Tsunami
The word tsunami is japanese word that means harbor wave
Earthquake induced landslide
Landslide may happen during or after an earthquake
Seismometer
Is an instrument used to measure movements in earth's surface
Seismic wave
Is a form of energy that travels through the interior of earth
P–wave
First one to be recorded
S–wave
Carry most of the energy of the seismic activity
Earthquake
Have occurring as part of earth's normal functioning
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