Acronyms/Abbreviations
What does FEMA stand for?
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Severe disruptions to a community or society caused by dangerous physical events in combination with vulnerable social conditions, resulting in widespread adverse effects, demanding urgent emergency response to meet critical human needs and potentially requiring external assistance for recovery.
Disaster
This California city was hit by Blank in 1906 which led to ruptured gas lines leading to massive fires that are estimated to have caused nearly 90% of the total damages.
1906 San Francisco earthquakes.
What are the four basic elements?
Earth, Air, Water, Fire
What does COVID stand for
Corona virus disease
A process, phenomenon, or human activity that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption, or environmental degradation
Hazard
This Blank hit both Texas and Louisiana in 2017 which caused loss of power in a chemical plant resulting in an explosion of organic peroxides.
Hurricane Harvey
What are the four steps to disaster management?
Response, Recovery, Mitigation, and Preparation
What does MERS stand for?
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
A combination of events that occur at the same time and lead to impacts that exceed the sum of the individual contributing events
Compounding disaster
In what might be the most iconic cascading disaster this tragedy hit Japan In 2011 and caused over 18,000 fatalities. What were the three primary disasters that occurred during this event?
Tohoku earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear accident.
What was the name of our guest speaker?
Don Bliss
What does CSTLTS stand for?
Center for State, Tribal, Local, and territories support.
A primary event (trigger), is followed by a chain of other events that may range from modest to significant intensity or magnitude; the combined impacts over time (damage, losses, disruption) are more severe than if they had occurred separately.
Cascading disaster
This disaster led to the destruction of a chemical plant resulting in a leak of chlorine gas into the surrounding air and dioxins to spill into the Elbe polluting the Czech Republic, Germany, and the North sea.
European flood of 2002
According to the reading Climate Change and Emergency Management, How much money is saved per $1 spent on mitigation?
$15
What does EHS stand for?
Environmental Health & Safety Or Extremely Hazardous Substance
The ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events. In addition to this definition, which addresses the capacity of systems to recover from events
The term may be used to focus on post-event activities of response and recovery.
Resilience
This 2006 disaster struck Ecuador which resulted in poor agricultural yields leading to massive migration, leaving the area still struggling.
Mt. Tungurahua eruption. or volcano eruption.
Name two authors from this week's readings
Brian Barth,
Susan L. Cutter,
Steve Moddemeyer, Negin Sobhani, and Berna Oztekin-Gunaydin,
Ryan Scott Houser,
Mcnabb and Swenson