Disaster Awareness, Preparedness, and Management

This refers to a situation that is associated with catastrophic events where a number of persons are plunged with hardship and suffering that are caused by problems like shortage of food, clothing, medical care and other basic necessities.

• Calamity

• Disaster

• Relief

• Pollution

This is a state or condition when water overflows from natural waterways caused by heavy rainfall resulting in the water accumulation in low lying areas.

• Disaster

• Flood

• Typhoon

• Volcanic Eruption

This is a condition that is declared by the President of the country in the event of a widespread destruction to property and lives due to destructive forces of nature and emergencies.

• Disaster Control

• Disaster Management

• Hazards

• State of Calamity

This is the level of susceptibility or resiliency of the people and communities against the impact of the prevailing hazards based on the state of physical, social, and economic conditions in a given area.

• Rehabilitation

• Risks

• State of Calamity

• Vulnerability

These are progressive or sudden events brought about by natural or human-induced hazards that cause losses and sufferings the consequence of which results to people and communities undertaking extra-ordinary measures to cope with their impacts.

• Calamity

• Disaster

• Hazards

• Risks

These are dust particles of Earth and debris, together with the radioactive materials that cling to them and are drawn up into mushroom clouds resulting from detonation of a nuclear weapon or devise and which are carried by the wind and sent back to earth.

• Pollution

• Radio-Active Fallout

• Space Debris

• Volcanic Eruption

This refers to anything that is done to alleviate the condition of those who are suffering from the effects of a calamity/disaster and who at that particular time are completely helpless.

• Disaster Control

• Disaster Management

• Rehabilitation

• Relief

These are remains of artificial satellites and other components as well as their means of carriage aloft which fall back to earth.

• Hazards

• Risks

• Space Debris

• Volcanic Eruption

This refers to the act of limiting the effect of disaster through the introduction of measures designed to prepare the inhabitants before, during and after a disaster.

• Disaster Control

• Disaster Management

• National Disaster Coordinating Council

• Rehabilitation

These are natural or man-induced phenomena or activities, the presence of which poses a threat to people's lives, limbs, properties and socio-economic conditions.

• Calamity

• Disaster

• Hazards

• Risks