GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mercalli Intensity Scale, Seismometer, Hypocenter
8 Apr 2016
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Hazards: elements in the physical environment that are harmful to people and are caused by forces extraneous to them. Hazards, simply put, are threats to people and the things they value. These are parially social constructed people"s percepions and experiences shape our feelings towards hazards. Risk: is the likelihood (probability) of occurrences of an event. Hazards include risk (a probability), impact (magnitude) and contextual (sociopoliical) elements. Vulnerability: is the potenial for loss or the capacity to sufer harm from hazard: can be applied to individuals, society or the environment. Disasters are singular or interacive hazard events that have a profound impact on. Place of origin: local people, places in terms of injuries, property damages, loss of life, environmental impacts. It is possible to classify hazards according to the area in which they. Meteorological: hydrologic drought, lash loods, convenional loods, atmospheric: hurricanes, cyclones, tropical storms, tornadoes. Meteorological: wind and dust storms, temp extremes, severe summer storms.
