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Week 1 Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction

This document discusses disaster readiness and risk reduction. It defines disasters as serious disruptions that exceed a community's ability to cope using its own resources. Disasters can destroy homes and livelihoods. The document categorizes different types of natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and man-made disasters such as hazardous materials incidents, power outages, and cyber attacks. It also defines hazards as potential sources of harm and lists various geologic, atmospheric, hydrological, biologic, and man-made hazards.

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Week 1 Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction

This document discusses disaster readiness and risk reduction. It defines disasters as serious disruptions that exceed a community's ability to cope using its own resources. Disasters can destroy homes and livelihoods. The document categorizes different types of natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and man-made disasters such as hazardous materials incidents, power outages, and cyber attacks. It also defines hazards as potential sources of harm and lists various geologic, atmospheric, hydrological, biologic, and man-made hazards.

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DISASTER READINESS

AND RISK REDUCTION


G12
EARTHQUAKE
TACLOBAN CITY, DEVASTATED
BY TYPHOON YOLANDA

NAVOTAS, METROMANILA
DURING TYPHOON ONDOY
WILD FIRE IN AUSTRALIA
Disaster

 -A serious disruption of the


functioning of a community or a
society involving widespread human,
material, economic, or environmental
losses and impacts which exceeds the
ability of the affected community or
society to cope using its own
resources.
In other words:
Disaster is something very
bad happens to the people
and almost change theirs
lives completely. Disaster
can destroy homes and
works.
TYPES OF DISASTER
Natural Disasters
 Agricultural diseases & pests
 Drought and water shortage
 Earthquakes
 Emergency diseases (pandemic
influenza)
 Extreme heat
 Floods and flash floods
 Hail
 Hurricanes and tropical storms
 Landslides
 Thunderstorms and lighting
 Tornadoes
 Tsunamis
 Wildfire
 Winter and ice storms
 Sinkholes
Man-Made and Technological Types
of Disasters
 Hazardous materials
 Power service disruption & blackout
 Nuclear power plant and nuclear blast
 Radiological emergencies
 Chemical threat and biological weapons
 Cyber attacks
 Explosion
HAZARDS
Hazard

 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.
In other words:
Hazard is a potential source of harm.
 Hydrological
Atmospheric
GEOLOGIC
 avalanches (snow, rock, or air & snow)
and its run out
 earthquakes and earthquake-
triggered phenomena such
as tsunamis
 forest fires (espec. in Mediterranean
areas) leading to deforestation
 landslide (lateral displacement of
earth materials on a slope or hillside)
 mudflows (avalanche-like muddy flow
of soft/wet soil and sediment
materials, narrow landslides)
 rock falls, rock slides, (rock avalanche)
and debris flows
 volcanic eruptions, lahars and ash falls
Biologic
 Anthrax
 Antibiotic/Antimicrobial Resistance
in Bacteria and Organisms
 Avian Influenza
 Bed Bugs in the Workplace
 Common Cold
 Flood Clean-up
 HIV/AIDS
 Hepatitis A
 DENGUE
 Indoor Air Quality - Moulds and Fungi
 Influenza
 CHICKEN Fox
 Pandemic Influenza (Flu)
 Rabies
 Tuberculosis
 Working Safely around Stinging Insects
MAN-MADE
 Criminality
 Civil disorder
 Terrorism
 War
 Industrial hazards
 Waste disposal
 Power outage

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