Lesson : Disaster Management

Question 1

What is risk sharing

Answer 1

Educating people on the pre determined threats a hazard poses such as earthquake drills.

Question 2

Integrated risk management

Answer 2

Taking into account all the people who could be affected in a hazard, rather than just individual communities

Question 3

Magnitude

Answer 3

How big the event is. Eg- the Richter scale for earthquakes

Question 4

Prediction

Answer 4

Using educated assumptions to find the path of following events. Eg- using a map with possible routes a hurricane can go once it hits land

Question 5

Primary effects

Answer 5

Things that happen straight from a hazard. Eg- lava bombs damaging a building

Question 6

Secondary effects

Answer 6

Effects in result of a hazard. Eg- a building collapsing a year after an eruption due to damage from lava bombs

Question 7

Secondary effects

Answer 7

Effects in result of a hazard. Eg- a building collapsing a year after an eruption due to damage from lava bombs

Question 8

Resilience

Answer 8

How quickly a country/community/individual can recover from a disaster

Question 9

Distribution

Answer 9

How spread out things are

Question 10

The park model

Answer 10

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Question 11

The disaster Risk management cycle (DRMC)

Answer 11

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