DRRM UNIT 2

Question 1

It is the process of pinpointing geographical areas and determining the extent to which specific phenomena may pose a threat to individuals, property, infrastructure, and economic activities.

Answer 1

HAZARD MAPPING

Question 2

HAZARD MAPPING: It is the process of ____________________ and determining the extent to which specific phenomena may pose a threat to individuals, property, infrastructure, and economic activities.

Answer 2

pinpointing geographical areas

Question 3

________________ involves identifying, assessing, and mapping the potential risks and hazards in a specific geographic area.

Answer 3

HAZARD MAPPING

Question 4

A map that shows the expected disaster areas and the locations of evacuation sites, evacuation routes and other disaster prevention facilities for the purpose of mitigating damage caused by natural disasters and for disaster prevention measures.

Answer 4

Hazard Map

Question 5

Hazard Map is A map that shows the ___________________ and the locations of evacuation sites, evacuation routes and other disaster prevention facilities for the purpose of _________________ caused by natural disasters and for disaster prevention measures.

Answer 5

expected disaster areas
`mitigating damage

Question 6

should facilitate and guide people’s evacuation efforts and should not contribute to a false sense of safety.

Answer 6

Hazard maps

Question 7

Its objective is To equip residents with information regarding the potential range of damage and the measures they can take to prevent disasters

Answer 7

Hazard maps

Question 8

The goal of Hazard maps

Answer 8

Its objective is To equip residents with information regarding the potential range of damage and the measures they can take to prevent disasters

Question 9

: The main objective of this map is to inform the residents of that particular area about the risk. The information on areas of danger or places of safety and the basic knowledge on disaster prevention are given to residents.

Answer 9

Resident – Educating Type

Question 10

The main objective of this map is to inform the administration so that the maps can be used in warning and evacuation system.

Answer 10

Administrative Information Type:

Question 11

These hazard maps can be used to establish a warning system and the evacuation system, as well as evidence for land use regulations.

Answer 11

RESIDENT-EDUCATING and ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Hazard Maps

Question 12

This map is used as the basic materials that the administrative agencies utilize to provide disaster prevention services.

Answer 12

Administrative Information Type:

Question 13

ENUMERATE ALL THE 6 TYPES OF HAZARD MAPPING

Answer 13

1. Flood Hazard Mapping
2. Earthquake Hazard Mapping
3. Landslide Hazard Mapping
4. Wildfire Hazard Mapping
5. Volcanic Hazard Mapping
6. Coastal Hazard Mapping

Question 14

: It involves identifying areas prone to flooding and assessing the potential risk and impact of flood events. It considers factors such as topography, hydrological data, historical flood records, and land use patterns to create flood hazard maps.

TYPES OF HAZARD MAPPING

Answer 14

Flood Hazard Mapping

Question 15

Flood Hazard Mapping : It involves ____________________ and assessing the potential risk and impact of flood events. It considers factors such as topography, hydrological data, historical flood records, and land use patterns to create flood hazard maps.

Answer 15

identifying areas prone to flooding

Question 16

It involves assessing the seismic activity and potential for earthquakes in a specific region. It considers factors such as historical earthquake data, fault lines, geological surveys, and soil characteristics to create seismic hazard maps.

TYPES OF HAZARD MAPPING

Answer 16

Earthquake Hazard Mapping:

Question 17

: It involves identifying areas prone to landslides and assessing the potential risk. It considers factors such as slope stability, geological data, land cover, and rainfall patterns to create landslide hazard maps

TYPES OF HAZARD MAPPING

Answer 17

Landslide Hazard Mapping

Question 18

: It involves identifying areas at risk of wildfires and assessing the potential impact. It considers factors such as vegetation type, fuel load, weather patterns, and topography to create wildfire hazard maps.

TYPES OF HAZARD MAPPING

Answer 18

Wildfire Hazard Mapping

Question 19

It involves assessing the potential risks associated with volcanic eruptions in volcanic regions. It considers factors such as volcanic history, eruption frequency, lava flow paths, and ash fall patterns to create volcanic hazard maps.

TYPES OF HAZARD MAPPING

Answer 19

Volcanic Hazard Mapping

Question 20

: It involves assessing the risks associated with coastal hazards such as storm surge, coastal erosion, and sea-level rise. It considers factors such as coastal topography, wave patterns, sea-level rise projections, and land-use patterns to create coastal hazard maps.

TYPES OF HAZARD MAPPING

Answer 20

Coastal Hazard Mapping

Question 21

Are the specific types of data that are necessary to effectively assess and map the potential risks and hazards in a particular area.

Answer 21

Data requirements:

Question 22

It involves identifying and collecting the relevant information needed to understand the nature, extent, and impact of various hazards.

Answer 22

Data requirements: Data requirements:

Question 23

Hazard maps help in developing effective __________________ plans, including land-use planning, infrastructure development, and emergency response strategies.

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Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Question 24

These Hazard maps help guide the development of residential, commercial, and industrial areas away from high-risk zones, such as floodplains, landslide-prone areas, or seismic hazard zones.

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Land-use Planning and Zoning

Question 25

Information in these hazard maps such as areas that are at high risk during specific hazard events helps emergency managers develop evacuation routes, establish emergency shelters, and allocate resources strategically

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Emergency Response Planning

Question 26

By making hazard maps accessible to the public, individuals and communities can better understand the hazards they may face and take necessary precautions.

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Public Awareness and Education

Question 27

By identifying areas prone to hazards, such as flooding or earthquakes, engineers and planners can incorporate appropriate mitigation measures into the design of critical infrastructure like bridges, dams, roads, and buildings

Answer 27

Infrastructure Development and Design

Question 28

This helps enhance the resilience and safety of infrastructure systems.

Answer 28

Infrastructure Development and Design

Question 29

Hazard maps help identify environmentally sensitive areas that may be at risk from hazards, guiding conservation strategies and land management practices to protect ecosystems and biodiversity.

Answer 29

Environmental Planning and Conservation

Question 30

Refers to the susceptibility or lack of resilience of individuals, communities, or systems to the impacts of disasters.

Answer 30

Vulnerability

Question 31

Vulnerability is a measure of the ____________ or __________ that can be experienced due to a disaster event.

Answer 31

potential harm
loss

Question 32

Vulnerability describes the _____________ & _____________of a individuals, community, system or asset that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.

Answer 32

characteristics and circumstances

Question 33

The conditions determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes which __________________ of an individual, a community, assets, or systems to the impacts of hazards.

Answer 33

increase the susceptibility

Question 34

It is a process that assesses the susceptibility of a community or region to the impacts of hazards, such as natural disasters.

Answer 34

Vulnerability Assessment

Question 35

Vulnerability Assessment The ____________ and ________________ may have on the people, property, environment, and economy of a community

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estimation of scale
severity these hazards

Question 36

The Vulnerability assessment typically includes an analysis of physical, social, economic, and environmental factors that contribute to _______________

Answer 36

vulnerability

Question 37

Vulnerability Assessment helps identify which _________________, so that appropriate measures can be taken to reduce their vulnerability

Answer 37

communities are most at risk and why

Question 38

ENUMERATE ALL THE 3 DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS

Answer 38

POPULATION DENSITY
AGE OF POPULATION
DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION

Question 39

ENUMERATE ALL THE 4 SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS

Answer 39

WEATLH
EDUCATION
NATURE OF SOCIETY
UNDERSTANDING OF THE AREAE

Question 40

ENUMERATE ALL THE 4 COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS

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1. BUILDING CODES
2. SCIENTIFIC MONITORING AND EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
3. COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
4. EMERGENCY PLANNING

Question 41

ENUMERATE ALL THE 4 DEALING WITH AFTER EFFECTS

Answer 41

INSURANCE COVER
EMERGENCY PERSONNEL
AID REQUEST

Question 42

Refers to the susceptibility of infrastructure, buildings, and natural resources to damage or destruction during a disaster.

Answer 42

Physical Vulnerability

Question 43

. It encompasses the physical characteristics and conditions that make an area or structure more prone to harm.

Answer 43

Physical Vulnerability

Question 44

Physical Vulnerability encompasses the ______________________that make an area or structure more prone to harm.

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physical characteristics and conditions

Question 45

The physical vulnerability of an area also depends on its geographic ______________________ e.g. if an area lies near the coast lines, fault lines, unstable hills etc. it makes the area more vulnerable to disasters as compared to an area that is far away from the origin of the disaster.

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proximity to the source and origin of the disasters`

Question 46

The level of vulnerability is highly dependent upon the economic status of individuals, communities, and nations

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Economic Vulnerability

Question 47

Families with low incomes often live in high-risk areas around cities, because they can’t afford to live in______________________ places.

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safer (and more expensive)

Question 48

: Refers to the inability of people, organizations and societies to withstand adverse impacts to hazards due to characteristics inherent in social interactions, institutions and systems of cultural values.

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Social Vulnerability

Question 49

Poor people are considered to be _____________ as their houses are built of weak material and in dangerous areas.

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more vulnerable

Question 50

Refers to the susceptibility of the natural environment condition to the adverse impact of a disaster.

Answer 50

Environmental Vulnerability

Question 51

Environmental Vulnerability focuses on understanding and assessing the ______________ and ___________ factors that make an area more prone to the negative effects of disasters

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ecological and environmental

Question 52

the possibility of something bad happening

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Risk

Question 53

Also following a major earthquake, there is a _________________ which can cause further damage.

Answer 53

risk of aftershocks

Question 54

: something that is dangerous and likely to cause damage; potential source of harm or danger

Answer 54

Hazard

Question 55

Refers to the potential loss of life, injury, or destroyed or damaged assets which could occur to a system, society, or a community in a specific period of time, determined probabilistically as a function of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity.

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Disaster Risk

Question 56

A methodology to determine the nature and extent of risk by analyzing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of vulnerability that together could potentially harm exposed people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.

Answer 56

Disaster Risk Assessment

Question 57

identifying and understanding the hazards that could potentially cause harm or damage

Answer 57

Identification of hazards

Question 58

a review of the technical characteristics of hazards such as their location, intensity, frequency, and probability

Answer 58

Hazard characterization

Question 59

Hazard characterization is the process of understanding and describing the __________, _______, and ______ of a specific hazard.

Answer 59

nature, properties, and potential impacts

Question 60

It involves gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data and information to develop a comprehensive understanding of the hazard’s characteristics.

Answer 60

Hazard characterization

Question 61

the analysis of exposure and vulnerability, including the physical, social, health, environmental and economic dimensions;

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Exposure Assessment

Question 62

This component focuses on determining the extent to which elements at risk are exposed to the identified hazards.

Answer 62

Exposure Assessment

Question 63

It involves evaluating the proximity, intensity, and duration of potential hazard events and their potential impact on the vulnerable elements.

Answer 63

Exposure Assessment

Question 64

Exposure Assessment involves evaluating the ______, ____, and _____ of potential hazard events and their potential impact on the vulnerable elements.

Answer 64

proximity, intensity, and duration

Question 65

and the evaluation of the effectiveness of prevailing and alternative coping capacities with respect to likely risk scenarios.

Answer 65

Risk Characterization

Question 66

Risk Characterization and the evaluation of the_____________ and alternative coping capacities with respect to likely risk scenarios.

Answer 66

effectiveness of prevailing

Question 67

refers to the potential harm or adverse impacts that a hazard or disaster can have on a specific population or group of people.

Answer 67

Population Risk

Question 68

Understanding _________ is essential for disaster risk management and planning effective strategies for risk reduction, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Answer 68

population risk

Question 69

Population Risk helps in prioritizing resources, developing early warning systems, designing evacuation plans, and implementing measures to ________________ affected populations.

Answer 69

protect and support