Effects of Hazard

Question 1

Water damage due to a flood, and collapse of buildings due to an earthquake, landslide, typhoon, or tornado

Answer 1

Primary Effects

Question 2

Fires ignited by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, disruption of electrical power and water service as a result of an earthquake or flood, and flooding caused by a landslide moving into a lake or river

Answer 2

Secondary effects

Question 3

Long term effects that are set off as a result of a primary event These include things like loss of habitat caused by a flood, permanent changes in the position of river channel caused by flood, crop

Answer 3

Tertiary effects

Question 4

Is Hazard Assessment and Risk Assessment synonymous?

Answer 4

No

Question 5

Hazard assessment consist the following

Answer 5

hazardous processes have occurred in the past
severity of the physical effects of past hazardous processes
frequency of occurrence
effects of a process of a given magnitude
making all this information available in a form useful to planners and public officials responsible

Question 6

Involves the assessment of hazards from a scientific point of view, but also the socio economic impacts of a hazardous event

Answer 6

Risk Assessment

Question 7

Formula of risk assessment

Answer 7

Risk =(probability that the hazard will happen) x (expected impacts)