Enquiry Question 3

Question 1

What is a meteorological event?

Answer 1

A weather related event.

Have recently seen an increase dues to global warming.

Question 2

What is a hydrological event?

Answer 2

A water related event.

Have recently seen an increase dues to global warming.

Question 3

What is a geophysical event?

Answer 3

A tectonic related event.

Question 4

What is a climatological event?

Answer 4

Events that are related to changing climate.

Have recently seen an increase dues to global warming.

Question 5

What is a biological event?

Answer 5

An event related to the bioshphere.

Have recently seen an increase dues to global warming.

Question 6

Why should we question disaster stats?

Answer 6

There is no universally agreed definition of a disaster.
Depends on the location of the event.
Stats can be complicated to collect.
Reporting of death numbers may be biased.
Political influences may alter stats.

Question 7

What is mitigation?

Answer 7

It describes the actions and interventions that a community may take to reduce vulnerability in advance of a tectonic hazard event.

Question 8

What is adaption?

Answer 8

Ways on which communities may be able to live with tectonic hazard by making adjustments to help the community survive reducing risk.

Question 9

What is the Park’s model used for?

Answer 9

It is used to help plan and understand risk and resilience, as well as to better prepare for future events.

Question 10

What is a multiple hazard zone?

Answer 10

Regions prone to two or more hazards, and in some cases can interact to produce complex disasters.

Question 11

What is meant by prediction?

Answer 11

Knowing when or where a natural hazard will strike and acting on it meaningfully in terms or evacuation.

Question 12

What is forecasting?

Answer 12

Much less precise than predicting cut provides a percentage change of a hazard occurring.

Question 13

Can earthquakes be predicted?

Answer 13

No,
Can only identify areas likely to suffer from severe ground shaking or liquefaction,
Areas that haven’t experienced an earthquake for some time can be overdue and can signify high risk.

Question 14

Can volcanic eruptions be predicted?

Answer 14

Yes,
Monitoring equipment can measure changes as magma chambers fill when an eruption is nearing,
Gas spectrometers analyse gas emissions which can signal an increased likelihood of an eruption.

Question 15

Can tsunamis be predicted?

Answer 15

Partly,
An earthquake caused tsunami cannot be predicted,
Once the earthquake has occurred however ocean monitoring equipment can be used to detect how soon it will hit and what scale.

Question 16

What does the hazard management cycle show?

And what are the three stages?

Answer 16

The different stages of managing an event in an attempt to reduce the scale of the disaster.

Pre-Disaster,
Response,
Post-Disaster.

Question 17

What are three ways disasters can be managed by modifying impacts?

Answer 17

Modifying the event,
Modifying vulnerability,
Modifying loss.

Question 18

What is hazard resistant design?

Answer 18

Constructing buildings and infrastructure that are strong enough to resist tectonic hazards.

Question 19

What is cry wolf syndrome?

Answer 19

Something that occurs when predictions and evacuations prove to be wrong, meaning people are less likely to believe the next prediction and warnings and therefore fail to evacuate.