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an educational institution and its corresponding Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Strategic activities are in cognizant with its noble tradition to realize its vision to serve & protect the welfare of its stakeholders in particular and the humanity in general. (Alvarado, 2014)

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Emergency Management Plan (EMP)

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DRRMC

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Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committee

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The EMP assigns responsibilities to significant members of functional response desks and details the overall strategies to

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prepare, respond, recover (short-term), and mitigate

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focuses their preparedness activities on the most likely threats to occur anytime based on their geographical location. Also called contingency planning.

Contpngency plan

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AGENT-SPECIFIC APPROACH

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incorporates disaster management components that are consistent across all major types of disaster events to maximize resources, expenditures, and planning efforts. Also called Strategic Planning.

Strategic plan

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ALL-HAZARDS APPROACH

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advance planning of activities in response to a known imminent danger, usually man made like external or internal political conflicts /war that do not normally occur in the community.

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FORWARD PLANNING

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consists of a set of measures undertaken in advance by governments, organisations, communities, or individuals to better respond and cope with the immediate aftermath of a disaster, whether it be human-induced or caused by natural hazards.

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DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

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is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters.

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Mitigation

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is the organized or unorganized action taken during and immediately after the event.

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Response

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he effort to return to normalcy after a disaster. It is usually a long, difficult process.

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Recovery

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This refers to how often a disaster occurs.

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Frequency

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The ability to tell when and if a disaster, such as floods, may be predicted based on the expected volume of rainfall, sometimes in conjunction with tide changes.

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Predictability

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This is a characteristic indicating that actions can be taken to avoid a disaster

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Preventability

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Types of Preventability

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Primary- aimed at preventing the occurrence of a disaster or limiting consequences when the event itself cannot be prevented

Secondary- aimed at implementing strategies once the disaster occurs

Tertiary- This level of prevention also aimed at preventing a recurrence or minimizing the effects of future local disasters.

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This refers to the speed of onset of an impending disaster and relates to the extent of forewarning possible and the anticipated duration of the incident.

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Imminence

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indicates the range of its effect

described in terms of the geographic area involved and in terms of the number of individuals affected, injured or killed

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Scope and Number of Casualties

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This refers to the characteristic describing the level of destruction and devastation of the disaster event.

An intensity scale measures that physical damage done by an earthquake

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Intensity

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scale measures the energy that the seismic waves send out.

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Magnitude