To test response plans and facilitate service planning, preparation and response in various kinds of incidents.
What are drills?
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The gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle.
What are tectonic plates?
Ground shaking, soil liquefaction, landslides, fissures, avalanches, fires and tsunamis.
What are earthquakes?
The 2011 Tsunami in Fukushima
What natural disaster caused 1 million tonnes of nuclear wastewater?
Raising awareness
What is the most common prevention?
The Torre Latinoamericana located in Mexico City.
Which building has survived many earthquakes?
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are caused by these activities.
Which natural disasters are caused by tectonic activities?
Ash and gasses released during this type of eruption can block out sunlight and cool the planet.
What is a volcanic eruption?
The volcano eruption that happened on August 24, 79 CE
When did Pompeii happen?
Japan uses these to ensure safety in building collapses and rechecks these every 10 years to ensure safety
What are building codes?
Beams under the buildings
What is one structure which supported buildings during earthquakes?
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How many tectonic plates are there?
The long-term effects of this natural disaster can include damaged ecosystems, displacement of people, and economic hardship.
What is a hurricane/typhoon?
The flood in China that killed 2,000,000
What is the Yellow River flood?
Land use planning, preventing habitation in risk zones, disaster resistant buildings, finding ways to reduce risk even before the disaster strikes and community awareness and education.
What are the different types of preventions?
Blocks tsunamis
What are tsunami walls?
When two or more tectonic plates move towards each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
The blackened earth left behind after a wildfire can easily lead to dangerous mudslides and soil erosion.
What are burn scars?
The earthquake that happened on July 28, 1976
When did the Tangshan earthquake happen?
Planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating, and taking corrective action.
What are the different parts to the prevention cycle?
Steel, Wood, Bamboo
What are some earthquake proof materials?
Fault lines and rift valleys.
What do transform plate boundaries cause?
The most powerful type of earthquake, these massive events along deep-sea fault lines can generate tsunami waves hundreds of feet high.
What are megathrust earthquakes?
Natural disasters that caused the rise of Floptropica where 100,000,000 died during the war and 100,404,666 were injured.
What was the Badussy War?