Lesson 6 Flashcards
An occurrence causing widespread destruction and distress
DISASTER
The probability that a hazard would hit a vulnerable community and would result in loss of lives and physical damages
Disaster Risk
A feeble shaking to violent trembling of the ground produced by the sudden displacement of rocks or rock materials below the earth’s surface.
Earthquake
Is a significant increase in ocean temperature over the eastern and central Pacific ocean.
El Niño
The degree to which a community is likely to experience hazard events of different magnitude.
Exposure
Refers to a fracture, fissure, or a zone of weakness where movement or displacement has occurred or may occur again
Fault
The adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climactic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
Adaptation
Showers of airborne fine-to-coarse-grained volcanic particles that fall out from the plumes of a volcanic eruption.
Ashfall or tephra fall
Combination of all the strengths, attributes and resources available within a community, society or organization that can be used to achieve agreed goals
Capacity
The overflowing of the normal confines of a stream or bodies of water, or accumulation of water over areas that are not normally submerged.
Flashflood
Caused by heavy precipitation in a short period of time, usually less than 6 hours.
Flood
Total amount of potential fuel for a fuel in a given area.
Fuel load
Displacement on the ground due to movement of fault.
Ground rupture
A disruptive up-down and sideways movement or motion experienced during an earthquake.
Ground shaking
A dangerous phenomenon, substance, human activity or condition that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption, or environmental damage.
Hazard
Is the strength of an earthquake as perceived and felt by the people in a certain locality.
Intensity
Rapidly flowing thick mixture of volcanic sediments and water, usually triggered by intense rainfall during typhoons, monsoons, and thunderstorms.
Lahar
A process that transforms the behavior of a body of sediments from that of a solid to that of a liquid when subjected to extremely intense shaking.
Liquefaction
Stream-like flows of incandescent molten rock erupted from a crater or fissure
Lava flows
Refers to the amount of energy released, measured by the amount of ground displacement or shaking.
Magnitude
A delineated area where no permanent habitation is recommended due to the possible impact of various hazards at any given time.
Permanent danger zone.
Turbulent mass of ejected fragmented volcanic materials mixed with hot gases that flow downslope at very high speed.
Pyroclastic flows
Heat transfer through empty space by electromagnetic waves.
Radiation
The restoration, and improvement where appropriate, of facilities, livelihoods and living conditions of disaster-affected communities, including efforts to reduce disaster risk factors.
Recovery
