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Disaster

Managemen
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Name of Candidate: Prasanna
Subject: Social Science
Grade & Section: 9 ‘B’
Acknowledgement
I would like to express my
deepest sense of gratitude to
the respected principal of the
school, and my teacher, Miss
Lavanya whose support and
guidance have helped me in
my learning. I am grateful to
my teacher for giving me the
opportunity to learn and
reach my potential by
assigning this project.
Introduction
 Disaster management is the
process by which we “prepare for,
respond to and learn from the
effects of big failures”. It is how we
cope with the human, material,
economic, or environmental
impacts of a given disaster.
Disasters can have human causes,
even though nature frequently
causes them.
 Through Disaster Management, we
cannot completely counteract the
Disaster but we can minimize the
damage caused by that certain
disaster, by informing the citizens
early, by providing refuge for
people affected by the Disaster etc.
Types of Disasters
Natural Disaster: A Natural disaster is an unforeseen
occurrence of an event that causes harm to society.
There are many Natural disasters that damage the
environment and the people living in it. Some of them are
earthquakes, cyclones, floods, Tsunami, landslides,
volcanic eruption, and avalanches.

Artificial or Man-Made Disaster: Man-made


disasters have an element of human intent, negligence,
or error involving a failure of a man-made system, as
opposed to natural disasters resulting from natural
hazards. Such man-made disasters are crime, arson, civil
disorder, terrorism, war, biological/chemical threat,

cyber-attacks etc.

Types of natural disasters


 Earthquake: An earthquake is the sudden release
of strain energy in the Earth's crust, resulting in
waves of shaking that radiate outward from the
earthquake source. When stresses in the crust
exceed the strength of the rock, it breaks along lines
of weakness, either a pre-existing or new fault plane.


 Tsunami: A tsunami is a series of waves in a water
body caused by the displacement of a large volume
of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other
underwater explosions above or below water all have
the potential to generate a tsunami. Tsunami is a
Japanese word from a double root: tsu, meaning port
or harbour, and nami, meaning wave.

Causes of natural disasters


What causes an Earthquake: When the tectonic
plates slide over one another, there is a cause of orogeny
which results in earthquakes and volcanoes. These
disturbances cause vibrations that spread in all
directions.

What causes a Tsunami: Most tsunamis are caused


by earthquakes on converging tectonic plate boundaries.
According to the Global Historical Tsunami Database,
since 1900, over 80% of likely tsunamis were generated
by earthquakes.

Types of artificial disasters


 Terrorism: Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or
violence against persons or property to intimidate or
coerce a government or its citizens to further certain
political or social objectives. Law enforcement
generally recognizes two types of terrorism:
domestic and international.
 Cyber-attacks: Actions taken by computer
networks to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy
information resident in computers and computer
networks, or the computers and networks
themselves.

Causes of artificial
disasters
What causes Terrorism: Terrorism is the use of
force or violence against persons or property in violation
of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of
intimidation, coercion, or ransom. Terrorists often use
threats to: Create fear among the public. In general, after
terrorist acts, people suffer from post – traumatic stress
disorders, anxiety and major depression. Additionally,
survivors of terrorist attacks are more vulnerable to
substance abuse issues and psychosomatic symptoms
after an attack.

What causes Cyber-attacks: Threat actors launch


cyberattacks for all sorts of reasons, from petty theft to
acts of war. They use a variety of tactics, like malware
attacks, social engineering scams, and password theft, to
gain unauthorized access to their target systems.
Cyberattacks can disrupt, damage and even destroy
businesses.

Disaster management

Disaster management is a process of


effectively preparing for and responding
to disasters. It involves strategically
organizing resources to lessen the harm
that disasters cause. It also involves a
systematic approach to managing the
responsibilities of disaster prevention,
preparedness, response, and recovery.
Emergency managers think of disasters
as recurring events with four phases:
Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and
Recovery.

Conclusion

 Disaster management is the primary


step to understanding how to prevent
natural disasters. One can always
minimize the risk of getting affected
by a natural disaster with proper
knowledge of disaster management.
 Most of the natural disaster's effects
are being made worse due to human
induced activities such as
industrialization and deforestation.
The spurt in the increasing demand for
factories had made their effects worse
to millions of families. These activities
must be control to reduce the natural
effects.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THIS WONDERFUL
OPPORTUNITY!!

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