Earthquakes
Occurs as a result of shifting tectonic plates?
What are earthquakes?
Usually occur naturally by lightning strikes.
What are forest or wildfires?
Act which authorizes federal assistance for state-declared disasters.
What is the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act?
The result of low-pressure conditions occurring over tropical waters.
What are hurricanes?
Oversee a majority of federal-forested lands.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service
Numerical scale for expressing the destructive magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
These extreme weather occurrences could happen as a result of forest fires.
What are mudslides and flooding?
What is FEMA?
The greatest danger from hurricanes occurs when this happens.
What is when they make landfall?
Included in the NRF that describes federal coordinating structures that group resources and capabilities into functional areas.
What are Emergency Support Functions (ESF)
Smaller earthquakes that come after a larger one.
What are aftershocks?
Organization responsible for providing marine firefighting assets.
What is the U.S. Caost Gaurd?
Emergency Support Function for firefighting.
What is ESF 4: Firefighting?
This is responsible for over 90 percent of deaths during a hurricane.
What is water/ flooding/ drowning
A full-spectrum, integrated approach to emergency preparedness.
What is an all-hazard response or approach?
What is a tsunami?
The collaborative effort of 8 federal agencies who provide national logistical support for forest fires.
What is the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
Organization fully responsible for firefighting functions on military installations.
What is the Department of Defense (DOD)
What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Plays a significant role during hurricane search and rescue operations.
What is the U.S. Coast Guard or the Civil Air Patrol?
Zone of significant seismic activity crossing several Midwestern and Southern states.
What is the New Madrid fault line?
Government responsible for fighting fires on state and privately owned lands.
What are State firefighting organizations?
Increasing levels issued by the NIFC that ensure firefighting resources are dedicated based on the fire's severity.
What are National Preparedness Levels?
This scale categorizes hurricanes based on estimated destructive power and sustained wind speed.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Wind scale?
Responsible for coordination for foreign aid during a fire.
What is the Department of State?