Quiz 2 Stuff Flashcards
These are steps that can be taken to eliminate hazards or exposure to the hazard.
Prevention
A type of vulnerability factor and is about the susceptibility of individuals, communities, businesses, and governments to absorb or cushion the effects of a hazardous event.
Economic Factors
One of the factors that determine the severity of the impact of a hazard. It states that If a place is well prepared, regardless of its level of development, this can limit the impact of hazardous events.
Preparations
One of the factors that determine the severity of the impact of a hazard which refers to the size of the event massively affecting the impacts it has.
Magnitude of the Event
Physical elements exposed to various hazards.
1) Essential Facilities
2) Industrial and High Potential Loss Facilities and Facilities Containing Hazardous Materials
3) Transportation Lifelines
4) Utility Lifelines
A type of hazard involving extreme natural events in the crust of the earth that pose a threat to life and property, for example, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis (tidal waves), and landslides.
Geologic Hazards
The elements at risk from a natural or man-made hazard event. This could include individuals; dwellings or households and communities; buildings and structures; public facilities and infrastructure assets; agricultural commodities; environmental assets; and business activity.
Exposure
A type of vulnerability factor where certain population groups may be more vulnerable than others.
Social Factor
The level of severity or loss concerning a certain hazard being identified depending on different factors such as physical, social, and even economic.
Vulnerability
One of the factors that determine the severity of the impact of a hazard which states that the greater the number of people in an area, the greater the potential for disaster.
Population Density
The magnitude of the disaster depends on what things?
1) The severity of the natural event
2) The quantity of exposure of the elements at risk which includes lives and properties.
3) Vulnerability level or quality of exposure.
________ vulnerability is based on the economic status of individuals, communities, and nations. The poorer the country, the more vulnerable to disasters because they lack the funds or budgets to build sturdy structures and put other engineering measures in place which protect them from being affected by disasters.
Economic
It is the likely frequency of occurrence of different intensities for different areas, as determined from historical data or scientific analysis.
Hazard
A type of hazard referring to biological substances that pose a threat to the health of living organisms, primarily that of humans. This can include medical waste or samples of a microorganism, viruses, or toxins (from a biological source) that can affect human health.
Biological Hazards/Biohazards
A factor that may increase vulnerability. An example is houses built alongside waterways such as rivers and estero that when heavy rainfall happens may lead to flood.
Putting Homes in High Risk Areas
Modifications in the normal or natural behavior aimed at reducing the exposure and/or vulnerability to the hazard.
Adaptation
It increases vulnerability in many communities as it may cause the soil to loosen that if when heavy rainfall happens, it may cause mudslides, landslides, and floods.
Deforestation
________ vulnerability includes population density levels, place of a settlement, the site design, and materials used for infrastructure and housing.
Physical
What are the factors that determine the severity of the impact of a hazard?
1) Population Density
2) Frequency
3) Magnitude of the Event
4) Preparations
5) Accessibility
Factors that may increase vulnerability (according to the modules and ppt)
1) Deforestation
2) Putting Homes in High Risk Areas
A type of hazard which include things such as oxygen deficiencies, dust, chemical vapors, welding fumes, fogs, and mists that can interfere with the body’s ability to transport and utilize oxygen, or that have negative toxicological effects on the human body.
Atmospheric Hazards
__________________ are often used in deterministic analyses that assess the impact of past events with current exposure, but can also be used to estimate the probability of a hazard occurring at a location with a specific intensity.
Historical disaster events
Exposure is a single instance when a system is ____ to damage
open
True or False:
The level of vulnerability depends on the exposure of a certain community or people to a hazard.
True
These are steps that can be taken to reduce the hazard or exposure and/or vulnerability of the elements exposed to the hazard.
Mitigation
______ vulnerability happens due to the inability of people, organizations, and societies to prevent severe effects from hazards because of the expected behavior in social interactions, institutions, and systems of cultural values.
Social
What are the types of factor affecting vulnerability?
Social, Environmental, and Economic Factors
One of the factors that determine the severity of the impact of a hazard. If an area is remote or weather conditions and aftershocks prevent safe search and rescue efforts then the impacts can be greatly increased.
Accessibility
One of the factors that determine the severity of the impact of a hazard. It is how often the hazardous event occurs. The occurrence of disasters, often or not, might be a factor in the level of impact of a disaster.
Frequency
A type of hazard defined as extreme events associated with water occurrence, movement, and distribution. Examples include droughts and flooding and related events (e.g., landslides and river scour and deposition).
Hydrologic Hazards
A type of vulnerability factor which explains the higher vulnerability of developing nations in comparison to the developed ones because of their limited ability to adapt to changes.
Environmental Factor
What is the difference between hazard and risk?
A hazard is something that can cause harm, e.g. electricity, chemicals, working up a ladder, noise, a keyboard, a bully at work, stress, etc. Meanwhile, a risk is a chance, high or low, that any hazard will cause somebody harm.
What does IFRC mean?
International Federation of Red Cross
What is the meaning of UNDP?
United Nations Development Program
