Disaster Management Cycle
A coastal barangay receives a typhoon warning three days before landfall. Families prepare go-bags and evacuate to designated centers. Which disaster management phase is demonstrated?
Preparedness
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
It is the process of planning and preparing for potential disasters before they occur.
Disaster Readiness
It is a potential threat or danger that can cause harm to people, property, or the environment.
It happens when a hazard seriously affects a community and overwhelms its capacity to cope.
Disaster
Timely and accurate updates can save lives. If residents are warned early enough about the typhoon's path, intensity, and possible dangers, they have a chance to take action.
Access to Information
After a major earthquake, rescue teams search for trapped victims and distribute relief goods. Which disaster management phase is taking place?
Response
Which pairing correctly matches a hazard with its classification based on speed of onset?
Earthquake — Sudden-onset
Drought — Sudden-onset
Armed conflict — Short-duration
El Niño — Rapid-onset
Earthquake — Sudden-onset
The weakness or lack of protection that makes people or places more likely to be harmed by hazards.
Double Jeopardy:
A community receives early and accurate warnings about an approaching typhoon, allowing residents to evacuate safely. Which factor helped reduce disaster risk?
Early Warning System
Strong shaking caused by the sudden release of energy along fault lines damages buildings. What disaster is being described?
Earthquake
San Pablo City recently trained its Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction Committees, stockpiled relief goods, and built a concrete evacuation center. These actions were meant to strengthen the city's
Capacity
The presence of people, buildings, or resources in hazard-prone areas.
Double Jeopardy:
A disaster exceeds the affected community's ability to __________ using its own resources.
Cope
The 1990 Luzon Earthquake had a magnitude of __________.
7.8
The 1991 eruption of Mt. __________ was one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century.
Pinatubo
A family rebuilds their home and receives livelihood assistance several months after a typhoon. Which disaster management phase is this?
Recovery
Volcano is to ____________ Flooding is to Water Contamination.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
What is the meaning of NDRRMC?
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
Poor urban planning, deforestation, and poverty are examples of __________ and social conditions that increase disaster risk.
Political
Double Jeopardy:
Months of unusually low rainfall result in crop failure and water shortages. What disaster is described?
Drought
Double Jeopardy:
A municipality plants thousands of trees and constructs flood-control projects to reduce future flood damage. Which disaster management phase is illustrated?
Mitigation
Disaster Readiness is to preparing as Risk Reduction is to __________.
Lessen the impact
Double Jeopardy:
What is the meaning of PAGASA?
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
Tsunami is to underwater earthquake as Tornado is to __________.
Thunderstorm
JEOPARDY 3000
RA 7160 gives local government officials the _______________ to protect their communities by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters.
Authority and Responsibility