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Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction Part 1

1. The document discusses disaster readiness and risk reduction. It defines key terms like hazards, disasters, natural hazards and anthropogenic hazards. 2. Natural hazards include biological, geological, and hydrometeorological hazards. Specific natural hazards discussed are earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, typhoons, and extreme rainfall. 3. Anthropogenic hazards are man-made, and include indoor fires, industrial pollution, and forest fires. 4. The document outlines the difference between hazards, which are threats, and disasters, which cause harm to humans. It also briefly discusses hazard mitigation.

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Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction Part 1

1. The document discusses disaster readiness and risk reduction. It defines key terms like hazards, disasters, natural hazards and anthropogenic hazards. 2. Natural hazards include biological, geological, and hydrometeorological hazards. Specific natural hazards discussed are earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, typhoons, and extreme rainfall. 3. Anthropogenic hazards are man-made, and include indoor fires, industrial pollution, and forest fires. 4. The document outlines the difference between hazards, which are threats, and disasters, which cause harm to humans. It also briefly discusses hazard mitigation.

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Disaster Readiness

and Risk
Reduction
Mrs. Maria Fatima Parro-Glore
Scope:
Most Essential Learning Competencies: Content Standard:
1. Explain the Meaning of Disaster The learners demonstrate
2. Differentiate the risk factors understanding of…
underlying disaster
1. Concept of disaster
3. Describe the effects of disasters on
one’s life 2. Concept of disaster risk
4. Analyze disaster from the different 3. Nature of disasters
perspectives (physical,
psychological, socio-cultural,
4. Effects of disasters
economic, political, and biological)
Hazards Disasters
(threat to humans)
(harms humans)
Natural (Biological,
Geological, Natural
Hydrometeorological)
Anthropogenic Man-made
(Technological or man-
made)
Hazards
• A dangerous phenomenon, substance,
human activity or condition that may cause
loss of life, injury, or other health impact,
property damage, loss of livelihoods and
services, social and economic disruption, or
environmental damage.
Hazards
•Natural
a.Biological
b.Geological
c.Hydrometeorological
•Anthropogenic
a.Technological or man-made
Natural Hazards
- naturally- occurring event or
phenomenon which has
negative anthropogenic and
environmental effects
Natural Hazards
•Biological (biohazard)
– a biological substance that poses a threat
to the health of living organisms primarily
humans. This causes infections and diseases.
Ex. pathogenic bacteria and virus,
parasites
Biohazard
Natural Hazards
•Geological
-kind of hazard that has shaped the earth
due to the movement of plates and local
concentrations of geologic heating.
Ex.earthquake,landslide,volcanic eruption,
liquefaction, tsunami
Earthquake
•An intense shaking of the earth’s surface
resulting from the sudden release of
energy from the earth’s lithosphere that
creates seismic waves.
•Ground shaking – occurs when there is
an earthquake
Earthquake
•Magnitude – a number that characterizes the relative
size of an earthquake and its source.
*A seismograph records magnitude.
•Intensity – a Roman numeral number that describes
the severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on
the earths surface and on humans and their structures.
*A Modified Mercalli Scale and Rossi-Forel scale
records intensity.
Earthquake
Top 10 provinces at
risk to earthquakes:
1. Surigao del Sur
2. La Union
3. Benguet
4. Pangasinan
5. Pampanga
6. Tarlac
7. Ifugao
8. Davao Oriental
9. Nueva Vizcaya
10.Nueva Ecija
The Big One
• A premonition of a worse
case scenario of a 7.2
magnitude earthquake from
the West Valley Fault, a 100-
km fault that runs through
cities (Taguig, Muntinlupa,
Paranaque, Quezon City,
Pasig, Makati, Marikina) in
Metro Manila and nearby
provinces (Rizal, Laguna,
Cavite, Bulacan). A tsunami
is also forseen in the
scenario set by PHILVOLCS.
• Fault – planar fracture or
Earthquake discontinuity in a volume of
rock across which there has
been significant displacement
as a result of rock-mass
movement
• Epicenter-the point on the
earth’s surface vertically above
the hypocenter
• Hypocenter (focus)- point of
origin of an earthquake
• Seismic waves- energy that
travels through the earth’s
layers as a result of an
earthquake
Tsunami
•A series of waves in a body
of water caused by
earthquake or undersea
volcanic eruption.
Tsunami
Landslide
•A type of mass-wasting
•Movement of a mass of rock or
debris down a slope due to
gravity.
Landslide
Volcanic Eruptions
•Happens when lava and gas are
discharged from a volcanic vent
•Philippines is prone to this occurrence
since it’s part of the Pacific Ring of Fire
•Lava flow- movement of lava during a
non-explosive effusive eruption
Volcanic Eruptions
Liquefaction
•Occurs when a saturated or partially
saturated soil substantially loses
strength and stiffness in response to
an applied stress such as shaking
which causes the solid soil to
behave like a liquid.
Liquefaction
Natural Hazards
•Hydrometeorological
-hazards that involves the transfer of water
and energy between the land surface and
the lower atmosphere.
Ex.Tornado, Flood, Typhoon, Storm Surge,
Extreme Rainfall, Monsoon
Tornado
• A rapidly rotating column of
air that is in contact with
both the surface of the earth
and cumulonimbus cloud or,
in rare cases, the base of a
cumulus cloud. Can last for a
few minutes.

*hurricanes- can last for days.


Flood
•An overflow of
water that
submerges
land that is
usually dry
Typhoon
• A type of large storm
system having a circular
or spiral system of violent
winds, typically hundreds
of kilometers or miles in
diameter that spirals
around the region of low
atmospheric pressure.
Storm Surge
• A tsunami-like
phenomenon of rising
water commonly
associated with low-
pressure weather
systems, such as
tropical cyclones.
Extreme Rainfall
•The top 5% of
rainy days which
indicates a heavy
rainfall which is
typically caused
by a typhoon.
Anthropogenic Hazards
•Technological or man-made
-Hazards caused by human action or
inaction
Ex. Indoor Fire, Industrial Pollution, Forest Fire
Indoor Fire
•The burning of
materials in any
enclosed or
confined area.
Industrial Pollution
• Hazards due to burning
coal and fossil fuel like oil,
natural gas and petroleum.
These untreated gases and
liquid wastes were
released in the
environment from
factories which causes
pollution.
Forest Fire
•Human –caused fire
due to different
reasons such as land
cultivation for
agricultural
purposes.
*kaingin
Disasters
• A serious disruption of the functioning of a
community or a society involving
widespread human, material, economic or
environmental losses and impacts, which
exceeds the ability of the affected
community or society to cope using its own
resources.
Disasters
• Natural or man-made emergencies that cannot
be handled by affected communities who
experience severe danger and incur loss of lives
and properties causing disruption in its social
structure and prevention of the fulfillment of all
or some of the affected community’s essential
functions.
Natural Disasters
- Any natural hazard or threat
that causes fatality or damage
to property.
Man-made Disasters
- Any man-made hazard or
threat that causes fatality or
damage to property.
Hazard Mitigation
•The process wherein humans
develop ways minimization of risks
and decreasing the damages and
casualties brought by the hazards.
Hazard Mitigation
Homework:

•Finish answering
module 1 until
October 24,2020.
Send it to
mariafatima.glore
@deped.gov.ph

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