Basic Concept of Hazard and Disaster

______________is a sudden calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community's ability to cope using its own resources.

• Disaster

• Hazard

• Disaster Risk

____________________ = X(Hazard+Exposure+Vulnerability)

• Disaster

• Hazard

• Disaster Risk

__________________ is the potential of losing something of values such as physical health, social status, emotional well-being and financial wealth.

• Disaster

• Hazard

• Disaster Risk

______________ are the potentials for damage to man and his environment that may result from the occurrence of natural events.

• Disasters

• Hazards

• Disaster risks

_____________ are the people, properties, economic activities, and private/public services potentially threatened by a harmful event.

• Elements at Risk

• Risk Assessment

• Physical Exposure

_________________ involves the identification and mapping of the elements at risk and the assessment of the vulnerabilty.

• Elements at Risk

• Risk Assessment

• Physical Exposure

Choose the three factors of vulnerability.

• Social

• Educational

• Economic

• Environmental

• Astronomical

Choose all the impacts of disaster.

• Disruption of transportation.

• Medical Effects.

• Social and political Impact.

• Economic impact.

• Damage to critical Facilities.

Give one characteristic of a disaster.

Choose all the impacts of disaster.

• Disruption of transportation.

• Medical Effects.

• Social and political Impact.

• Economic impact.

• Damage to critical Facilities.