EPSC 185 Lecture Notes - Natural Hazard
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A disaster is an unfavourable event that happens in the past people thought it had to do with stars. Scientists love to predict when the next events are going to happen & how to reduce the effects impacts. Earthquakes local to regional an earthquake is very fast but cleanup could last a long time floods local to regional floods can last a long time. Meteorite impacts regional to global tsunamis regional to global. Hazard: potential threat to humans and their welfare. Risk: probability of loss (deaths, injuries, damage, disruption of economic activity) as a result of a particular natural event. Vulnerability: potential loss, or degree of loss, form the event (ie/ 0 = no damage, 1. Disaster: a hazardous event affecting a community in an adverse way such that essential social structures (internet, phones) and functions are disrupted.