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    Their Effects On The Environment and Community

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    Natural hazards such as typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes can negatively impact humans and the environment. Typhoons can damage buildings, infrastructure, watercraft, and vegetation through strong winds and rain. Volcanic eruptions can force population movements due to lava flows and cause temporary food shortages and landslides. When volcanoes erupt, they produce ash clouds that can remain in the atmosphere for years and damage the ozone layer. Earthquakes can cause buildings and infrastructure to collapse, resulting in injuries and property damage.

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    Natural hazards such as typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes can negatively impact humans and the environment. Typhoons can damage buildings, infrastructure, watercraft, and vegetation through strong winds and rain. Volcanic eruptions can force population movements due to lava flows and cause temporary food shortages and landslides. When volcanoes erupt, they produce ash clouds that can remain in the atmosphere for years and damage the ozone layer. Earthquakes can cause buildings and infrastructure to collapse, resulting in injuries and property damage.

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    Natural hazards such as typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes can negatively impact humans and the environment. Typhoons can damage buildings, infrastructure, watercraft, and vegetation through strong winds and rain. Volcanic eruptions can force population movements due to lava flows and cause temporary food shortages and landslides. When volcanoes erupt, they produce ash clouds that can remain in the atmosphere for years and damage the ozone layer. Earthquakes can cause buildings and infrastructure to collapse, resulting in injuries and property damage.

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    Natural hazards such as typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes can negatively impact humans and the environment. Typhoons can damage buildings, infrastructure, watercraft, and vegetation through strong winds and rain. Volcanic eruptions can force population movements due to lava flows and cause temporary food shortages and landslides. When volcanoes erupt, they produce ash clouds that can remain in the atmosphere for years and damage the ozone layer. Earthquakes can cause buildings and infrastructure to collapse, resulting in injuries and property damage.

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    Their effects on

    the environment
    and community
    A natural hazard is a natural phenomenon
    that might have a negative effect on
    humans or the environment. Natural hazard
    events can be classified into two broad
    categories: geophysical and biological.
    Geophysical hazards encompass geological
    and meteorological phenomena such as
    earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wildfires,
    cyclonic storms, floods, droughts, and
    landslides. Biological hazards can refer to a
    diverse array of disease, infection, and
    infestation.
    A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that
    develops between180°and100°Ein the
    Northern Hemisphere. For organizational
    purposes, the northern Pacific Ocean is
    divided into three regions: the eastern (North
    America to140°W), central (140°to 180°W),
    and western (180°to 100°E). The Regional
    Specialized Meteorological Center(RSMC)
    for tropical cyclone forecasts is in Japan,
    with other tropical cyclone warning centers
    for the northwest Pacific in Hawaii (the Joint
    Typhoon Warning Center), the Philippines
    and Hong Kong.
    Buildings and Other Infrastructure
    Wind and water account for the two most destructive
    forces associated with typhoons. Typhoons affect
    buildings and other structures in two ways: through direct
    force and through projectiles. Direct force occurs when
    a wind gust slams directly into a building or structure and
    causes physical damage, such as when wind blows the
    roof off a home.

    Watercraft and Offshore Operations


    In addition to causing mayhem on land, typhoons
    certainly stir up the seas. Individuals on watercraft or
    those performing offshore operations (such as on oil rigs)
    not only have to contend with heavy winds and rain, but
    also massive waves and, in general, turbulent water
    conditions.
    Trees and Other Vegetation
    The impacts of typhoons extend to the
    natural environment, of course. The storms
    may damage or destroy trees and other
    vegetation, including crops that communities
    may rely on for sustenance or trade, or both.
    Strong winds can snap branches; detach
    and injure leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds;
    and uproot Typhoons caused trouble for U.S.
    Navy fleets in the Pacific Theater during
    World War II. Today, fishing boats, cruise ships
    and other vessels rely on sophisticated
    technology to help them predict and avoid
    the devastating effects of typhoons, trees
    and plants.
    Are discharged from a volcanic
    vent. The most common
    consequences of this are
    population movements as large
    numbers of people are often
    forced to flee the moving lava
    flow. Volcanic eruptions often
    cause temporary food shortages
    and volcanic ash landslides called
    Lahar.
    When volcanoes erupt, they produce
    massive clouds of ashes into the
    troposphere, and then they drift upward
    into the stratosphere (the upper
    atmosphere layer where ozone gas
    protects humans from UV radiation).
    Ashes can stay in the stratosphere for
    about two to five years, and within this
    period, there are chemical reactions that
    destroy the stratus.
    An earthquake is the sudden,
    rapid shaking of the earth,
    caused by the breaking and
    shifting of underground rock.
    Earthquakes can cause
    buildings to collapse and
    cause heavy items to fall,
    resulting in injuries and
    property damage.
    Damage to human
    structures – Earthquakes
    cause great damage to
    human structures such as
    buildings, roads, rails,
    factories, dams, bridges
    etc., and thus cause heavy
    damage to human.
    Cañedo, Daisy Ley A.
    Felix, Mary Fontaine C.

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