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Hazard

Is a threat or harm

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Disaster

Is any events that cause widespread

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Disasters risk

May be specific to a location or condition of a community

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Natural disasters

Are devastating outcome that result from natural hazard

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Man-made disasters

Also called technological disaster

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Primary effects

Are direct situation arising from the disaster itself

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Secondary effects

Our situations resulting from the primary effects

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Tertiary effects

Are those that are not experienced as a disaster

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People

After a disaster takes place the number of casualties is assessed

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Buildings and infrastructure

Who's buildings and another infrastructure are important

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IFRC

International federation of red cross

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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

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Socioeconomic elements

This comprise the institutional and government system that dictate the kind of wellbeing and lifestyle of communities

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Environmental elements

This includes the ecosystems and the natural process that are exposed to hazard event

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Economy

Severity of a disaster

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Environment

Cause negative effect

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Physical perspective

Tangible or visible

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Psychological perspective

People's emotional

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Sociocultural perspective

Center on the response

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Economic perspective

Description of economies

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Political perspective

Government service

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Biological perspective

Potential for infection

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Natural hazard

Cause by physical and biological elements

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Man-made hazard

Cause by factors that are generally traced to human error

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Profiling hazard

Predicting the possible disasters

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Magnitude or strength of the event

Assessed by the measurements

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Duration of impact

Varies in duration

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Casualty of events

The impact of hazards can also be assessed based on the casualty events

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Hazard prone areas

Location where a natural hazard is likely to happen

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Ground shaking

The shaking of the ground is caused by the passage of seismic wave

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Ground rupture

ground movement happen on a fault line and breaks through the surface

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Liquefaction

Seismic shaking occurs causes loose material in the soil

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Earthquake

Induced ground subsidence

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Tsunami

The word tsunami is japanese word that means harbor wave

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Earthquake induced landslide

Landslide may happen during or after an earthquake

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Seismometer

Is an instrument used to measure movements in earth's surface

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Seismic wave

Is a form of energy that travels through the interior of earth

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P–wave

First one to be recorded

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S–wave

Carry most of the energy of the seismic activity

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Earthquake

Have occurring as part of earth's normal functioning

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