Anatural disasteris a normal phenomenon of nature that affects the society and environment.A natural physical event that kills people (directly or indirectly) or exceeds local capacity to control damage or initiate recovery efforts
The situation or event which overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a request to national levelfor external or international assistance. "
This means that the situation or event overflows the capacity locally, showing that not only the In the case of the United States, assistance for extreme events is linked by law to the disaster declaration issued by the president.
Current situations are presented in the last partof the century and no doubt can help to interpret the number of disasters has increased.
Floods and flash floods should be avoided completely while overflows can be accepted if the payback period is high.
Mass movements
Most mass movements affecting limited areas can be avoided if the threat is identified in advance. Other affecting large areas or entire valleys, so try to avoid the threat is costly.
Active faults
The risk is local, so the known faults should be taken into account in territorial planning.
Tsunami
Because the risk affects only the lower coastal area, in many places is relatively easy to move investments to higher ground.
High volcanic risk
The slopes of active volcanoes are obviously areas that should be avoided.
Adapt
You can not avoid the threats that do not vary much spatially. However, some of these can be successfully mitigated, i.e., one can adapt to the threat. Including:
Earthquakes
These can be mitigated by implementing appropriate building codes, as is often the failure of buildings that bring harm and death. Another side effect is the mass movements triggered b...
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Possible areas could be setting interest rates according to the areas of risk and level of mitigation, or just to have as a condition for state loans to build housing and in approved areas with certain rules.
Natural hazard data used for the purpose of reducing the risk in two ways: either directly guiding the way to a decision, as the home buyer, builder, or indirectly influencing their decisions through regulations, standards or varying interest rates or insurance rate according to risk level. Depending on the option chosen, the data may be available free or for a price.
Sell the data to a high cost is one end of the scale. The logic of this would be that risk awareness is propagated to all citizens through the insurance prices or availability or do not pay for housing. We are not aware of an example where this has been shown to be effective.
Floods can be a very dangerous natural disaster because a flood has the power to move cars, buildings, and cause massive damage to life and property. Even the small floods that are only 30 centimetres or so can do massive damage to houses and if the
Mitigation: Measures taken to lessen the consequences of disaster events upon our citizens and our
Gene understands that the story does not end with just the damages but also what it contributes to the future. It has brought with it new measures in structural development, social relationships and insurance holding. It is a major step to the lessening of the impact of future disasters.
The world experiences disasters every day and there has to be someone there to help. That someone could be considered Disaster Medicine EMS or rescue workers who get called out for natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major events, etc.…An excellent example of a terrorist attack would be the Boston Marathon where a major event was held and many people were hurt from a bomb going off . That terrorist attack took more than just rescue workers, paramedics, and other experienced professionals, it took civilians helping each other until professional help arrived. Natural disasters could be consider tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, or any other weather condition that requires outside resources.
Hazards pose risk to everyone. Our acceptance of the risks associated with hazards dictates where and how we live. As humans, we accept a certain amount of risk when choosing to live our daily lives. From time to time, a hazard becomes an emergent situation. Tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes along the Gulf Coast or earthquakes in California are all hazards that residents in those regions accept and live with. This paper will examine one hazard that caused a disaster requiring a response from emergency management personnel. Specifically, the hazard more closely examined here is an earthquake. With the recent twenty year anniversary covered by many media outlets, the January 17, 1994, Northridge, California earthquake to date is the most expensive earthquake in American history.
Due to the hazard that earthquakes cause, a hazard consultant becomes a critical part of
A Major Incident is a situation where there is a high risk to loss of life and requires the involvement of the Public and Emergency Services.
Factors such as lost or damage of lives, property, financial districts, and necessary needs are considered in which determines the hazards that pose the most threat to specific location.
Debris is scattered for miles, houses are unrecognizable, and vehicles have been thrown like baseballs. This would be an outcome of a natural disaster. Natural disaster have many forms such as earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and fires. With various technology, communication and information relaying has become more effective and assists both disaster preparedness and response. However, urbanization of cities, like Los Angeles, makes it increasingly difficult to respond swiftly. This leads to newer technology being used and a sense of security and safety is felt. When natural disasters such as earthquakes hits, Los Angeles is unable to interact with its surroundings. Ultimately, the urbanization of Los Angeles creates a society that is not able
Natural Disasters can occur anywhere at anytime. Some are more predictable than others, but they all bring hardship to everyone’s life. Examples of natural disasters are Earthquakes (Haiti 2010), Tornadoes, Tsunami, Hurricanes, Wild Fires, Winter Storms, Heat waves, Mudslides and Floods. Regardless of what kind of disaster occurs, bottom line, everyone needs to be prepared mentally and physically to deal with the aftermath. Education is the first step to prepare you to deal with any major disaster. Three of the major disasters that can potentially disrupt normal day to day operations in our lives, are Hurricanes, Tsunamis and Tornadoes.
Living within a dynamic system requires humans to use scientific knowledge to predict and prepare for large scale events, since not a day goes by without a change in the Earth: The continents drifting away, land rising, and faults. This essay will focus on one main thing: earthquakes. An earthquake measured magnitude 6.6, according to United States Geological Survey, which happened in Bam, Iran in the year 2003. This earthquake was caused by a “buried” fault in the Earth, said to rupture every 2,000 years. After rupturing, it will heal over a period of years (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics Space Association, 2009). This earthquake was called a national tragedy by the Iranian President Khatami (British Broadcasting Corporation, 2003). It affected a part of the Iranian society, which leads to the question of how you could prevent similar effects on the society in lethal earthquake situations: this will be the social factor of the devastating earthquake.
... should be designed to reflect current hazards and unexpected future uncertainties. Moreover, the process of risk framework should be able to reflect costs and benefits before making a decision to remove threats.
Authorities have attempted to implement codes or regulations, but that has proved to be very difficult tasks becasue there are many variables that effect the dynamic response of buildings. One way to try to avoid disaster is to evaluate seismic risk is to look at a buildings hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and location. Hazards are, for example, landslides ad soil type. Exposure is a building's occupancy and function. Vulnerability is the expected performance of a building's system, and location is how often earthquakes occur in the area. (Lagorio)
The purpose of this paper is to discuss potential disasters that could affect a community and cause mass causalities. Further discussion will include who is responsible for the management preparedness, what barriers must be considered and finally this paper will discuss the health care facilities role in emergency supplies and care of the patient in a disaster situation.
The least violent type of natural disasters is the flood; it is one of the most frequent hazards. A flood can affect local areas or a very large area affecting entire river deltas. Not all foods are alike, some of them develop slowly over a period days and some of them occur in a matter of minutes. The floods that develop quickly are known as flash floods; flash floods have a dangerous wall of thunderous water that carries rocks, mud and other different debris. If you live in a low-lying area near water you more prone to flooding, the smallest streams, gullies, creeks, and streambeds can cause a flood. Floods are often not a common thought when you think of a natural disaster, but they can be fatal, destroy homes, businesses, and roads, happen when you least expect, and happen when you are not prepared (FEMA:Flood). An extreme example of this type of natural disaster is the flood in eastern Australia last month; the flood, which lasted for weeks, caused thirty dea...