Natural Disasters!

Which natural disaster famously struck Kobe in 1995?

• Flood

• Earthquake

• Famine

• Tornado

The largest earthquake ever recorded anywhere in the world occurred in 1960 in Chile. What event accompanied this earthquake?

• Tsunami

• Volacano

• Wildfire

All of the following are TRUE about disasters EXCEPT...

• A disaster may be domestic or international

• A disaster may be caused by nature or have human origins

• A disaster always receives widespread media coverage.

• A disaster may have a known and gradual onset

According to the United Nations between 1992 and 2000 there were approximately ____ disasters per year throughout the world

• 100

• 300

• 500

• 800

Disasters frequently result in all of the following EXCEPT

• Damage to the ecological environment

• Displacement of populations

• Destruction of a population's homeland

• Sustained public attention during the recovery phase

UNDRR stands for?

• UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

• UN Office for Disaster Risk and Restitution

Name the two major Italian towns, now a UNESCO WHS, that were destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.

• Florence and Venice

• Pompeii and Herculaneum

• Rome and Milan

• Siciliy and Verona

What does the Fujita scale or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale) measure?

• Tsunami impacts

• Flood depths

• Magnitude of earthquakes

• Tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage it inflicts on human-built structures and vegetation

If an epicentre is a point directly above an earthquake on the surface of the Earth, what is the term for the point within the earth where the rupture starts?

• Backarc

• Benioff zone

• Hypocenter

• Fault scarp

Which of the following factors affect the risk from natural events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and floods?

• Geographic location

• Urbanization

• All of these factors

• Level of economic development