Stuff that could kill you
This natural hazard forms when warm ocean water, moist low air and rotational winds begin at least 300 miles from equator
What is a hurricane?
This is what you get when you combine hazards and vulnerabilities. It's also a popular board game of yesteryear.
What is Risk?
This hurricane which hit New Orleans in 2005 is the second deadliest ever to hit the U.S.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This is a series of waves (not just one) caused by a large and sudden disturbance of the sea.
What is a tsunami?
This is an act or phenomenon with the potential to harm people or property. Examples include winter storms, earthquakes, and landslides.
What is a hazard?
This volcano is erupting right now on the Big Island.
What is Kīlauea?
This is the most common, and historically the most deadly, of natural disasters.
What is flooding?
The three main aspects of this are exposure, sensitivity, and ability to cope. Communities assess this to decide how best to mitigate disasters.
What is vulnerability?
This natural disaster Down Under killed more people than any other disaster in 2020.
What is wildfire (or bushfire)?
This local natural hazard is characterized by long durations that affect large areas. Its common precursors are ground deformation, seismicity, and temperature changes.
What is volcanic eruption?
The Red Cross defines this as "a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community's or society's ability to cope using its own resources."
What is a disaster?
(VULNERABILITY+ HAZARD ) / CAPACITY = DISASTER
This is the State I would move to if my top priority was avoiding natural disasters.
What is Michigan?
This is the most destructive impact of a tropical cyclone, usually causing significantly more damage than wind alone. It occurs when seawater is pushed over normally dry land by strong winds.
What is storm surge?
This is the ability of communities to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events
What is Resilience?
This was the deadliest natural disaster in known history. (year, body of water, 2 disaster types)
What was the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami?