4. DISASTER VS HAZARD EVENT: DROUGHT
Texas (2010): 0 people hungry
Ethiopia (2003): 20M people hungry
5. DISASTER VS HAZARD EVENT: INDUSTRIAL LEAK
Three-Mile Island, USA (1979): no victims
Bhopal, India (1984): 3,000-8,000 victims
6. SCALES USED TO MEASURE A HAZARD EVENT
Suggest other factors which can be used to measure the
intensity of a disaster
7. CAUSE AND IMPACT OF A DISASTER RESULTING
FROM A NATURAL OR HUMAN-INDUCED HAZARD
NATURAL
Tôhoku, Japan (2011): M=9.0 during 6 min. (16,000 victims)
List likely features for each phase:
1. PRECONDITIONS
• Phase 1: everyday life (decades prior)
• Phase 2: incubation period (months prior)
2. DISASTER EVENT
• Phase 3: triggering of event (seconds)
• Phase 4: Impact (minutes)
• Phase 5: Secondary damages (hours/days)
• Phase 6: Outside emergency aid (days, weeks)
3. RECOVERY/RECONSTRUCTION
• Phase 7: cleanup/relief camps (weeks, months)
• Phase 8: reconstruction/restoration (years)
HUMAN-INDUCED:
List causes and consequences of the benzene river pollution in China
(2005) which affected 4 million people in Northern China and Eastern
Russia (region of Harbin, Manchuria)
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