TYPES OF HAZARDS AND ITS EXAMPLES

Types of Hazards and Examples

• Natural Hazards

  • Arise from natural processes like earthquakes, tsunami, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and floods.

• Quasi-natural Hazards

  • Result from the interaction of natural processes and human activities such as pollution, desertification, smog, and fog.

• Technological (or Man-made) Hazards

  • Directly caused by human activities like accidental release of chemicals, toxins, and pesticides.

Exposure and Vulnerability

• Exposure

  • Presence of elements at risk from natural or man-made hazards.

  • Includes individuals, households, communities, properties, buildings, structures, etc.

  • Higher exposure leads to increased disaster risk.

• Vulnerability

  • Characteristics making a community susceptible to hazard effects.

  • Inability to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, or respond to hazardous events.

Risk and Disaster Mitigation Measures

Disaster Mitigation Measures

• Eliminate or reduce the impacts and risks of hazards by means of proactive measures taken before an emergency or disaster takes place

• Mitigation is the action of reducing something’s severity, seriousness or painfulness

Factors Affecting Vulnerability of One’s community

• Population density

  • Refers to the number of individuals inhabiting in a particular space at the same time

• Capacity and efficiency to reduce Disaster Risk

  • A community that is less vulnerable have the capacity to reduce disaster risk because:

    • Can provide accessibility and availability of services and facilities during and after disaster

    • It has the ability to anticipate, adapt, and respond to possible disaster.