Disaster Trends Flashcards
What are geophysical hazrads?
A hazard originating from solid earth
Earthquakes, mass movements (dry), volcanic activities
What is a biological hazard?
Hazard casued by living organisms and exposure to their toxic substances. Or vector bourne diseases that they may carry i.e. mosquitos and malaria
Examples of biological hazards= EPIDEMIC, INSECT INFESTATION.
What is an extra terrestrial hazard?
A hazard caused by asteroids, meteoroids, and comets as they pass near-earth, enter the Earth’s atmosphere, and/or strike the Earth, and by changes in interplanetary conditions that effect the Earth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere.
What is a meteorological hazard?
Micro to meso scale extreme weather and atmospheric conditions that lasts from minutes to days.
Fog, storms and extreme temperatures
At is a climatological hazard
Long lives meso to macro scale atmospheric processes ranging from intra seasonal to multi decadal events.
Droughts, wild fires, glacial lake outbursts.
What are hydrological hazards?
A hazard caused by the movement and distribution of urface and subsurface fresh and sea water.
Floods, wave action
