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18 Cards in this Set
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Natural event |
Is an environmental event in an uninhabited location |
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Natural hazard |
Is when an event is linked with the social systems and environment. Ie. people are involved |
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Disaster |
It is bigger than a natural hazard. It is an event where the population is vulnerable, in which at least 20 people died, or have a US $16 million damage cost. |
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Hydrological |
Hazards involving running water and it's processes |
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Meteorological hazards |
Hazards caused or associated with weather patterns |
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Geomorphic hazards |
Hazards involving mass movements externally (on earth) |
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Tectonic hazards |
Hazards in which tectonic movements are at the origin. |
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Vulnerable population |
A population susceptible to human and/or economic loss because of where they live. |
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Class quake |
Highest vulnerability for poor people in a hazard |
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HDI |
Human development index: a statistical tool used to measure a country's overall achievement in its social and economic dimensions |
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Richter scale |
a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake. |
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Oil spill |
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is usually applied to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills may also occur on land |
The gulf war oil spill |
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Industrial catastrophe |
San Juan Ixhuatepec Seveso Chernobyl Bhopal |
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Lahars |
Mud flow looking like wet concrete, moving at 100km/h, 100-150m deep. Mix of snow, rain, volcanic ashes |
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Pyro clastic flows |
Rock fragments and gas moving at 700km/h at 1000C |
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Destructive plate |
One plate is destroyed beneath the other creating a deep oceanic trench |
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1 tectonic hazard affecting differently 2 countries |
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Which is which? |
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