DRMM

It is, any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth’s rocks. 

• Volcanic Erupttion

• Tsunami

• Flash Flood

• Earthquake

Any source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects to life, health, property or the environment.

• Disaster

• landslide

• hazard

• Fire

A devastating impact of a hazard that negatively affects life, health, property or the environment on a scale sufficient to require outside assistance.

• Hazard

• Disaster

• landslide

• Fire

►A natural hazard is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on humans. This negative effect is what we call a natural disaster.

• True

• False

• maybe

• All of the above

Hazard is 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

• TRUE

• FLASE

• MAYBE

• NONE OF THE ABOVE

►hazards arise from a variety of geological, meteorological, hydrological, oceanic, biological, and technological sources, sometimes acting in combination.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• MAYBE

A disaster is 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.

• true

• false

• maybe

Which is not an impact of a disaster?

• loss of life

• damage to the property

• injury

• live life to the fullest

Which is not a type of Hazard

• Geological

  hazard

• Hydrometeorological hazard

• fire hazards

• Lizard

How are disasters often describe?

• A result of the combination of:

  the exposure to a hazard

• Human activities

• insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences

• •the conditions of vulnerability that are present; and