Disaster
The Italian word disastro combines "dis-" (negation) with this word, meaning "star."
Astro
This type of risk involves high-frequency but low-severity events in localized areas.
What is Extensive Disaster Risk?
The Philippines is highly susceptible to earthquakes because it sits on this seismic area.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
Statistics show these two groups are 14 times more likely to die during a disaster than men.
Children and Women
This represents the historical "Paradigm Shift" in DRRM, moving away from Emergency Management and toward this proactive concept.
Disaster Preparedness
This term refers to a source or situation that has the potential to cause harm.
Hazard
This is the risk that remains even after all mitigation and reduction efforts are made.
What is Residual Risk?
On average, the Philippines is visited by this many typhoons every single year.
20
These individuals are often prone to exploitation due to their physical and psychological development.
Children and Youth
This equation represents the "Disaster Management" phase, adding the human factor of readiness to the natural event.
Hazard + Unpreparedness
A disaster occurs when a hazard overwhelms this—the ability of a community to cope.
Capacity
This "tolerated" level of risk is analyzed to ensure it won't cause adverse damage.
What is Acceptable Risk?
This law (P.D. 1096) sets the minimum standards for building safety in the Philippines.
National Building Code of the Philippines
This sector faces higher risk due to complex medical needs and limited physical mobility.
Senior Citizens
This formula explains that risk is amplified when people and the environment are vulnerable, but can be reduced by a community's ability to cope.
Disaster = (Hazard x Vulnerability)/Capacity
This term refers to people, infrastructure, or housing located (proximity) in hazard-prone areas.
Exposure
Impact effects are categorized into three levels: Primary, Secondary, and this third level.
What are Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Disaster Effects?
This geographic factor makes populations in low-lying areas vulnerable to storm surges.
Coastal Vulnerability/Typhoon Belt
This sector often faces language barriers and poverty discrimination during evacuations.
Migrants
The most comprehensive version of the formula, which considers the severity of the event, susceptibility to harm, presence of people/assets, and coping resources.
Disaster = (Hazard x Vulnerability x Exposure)/Capacity
This term describes the characteristics that make a community susceptible to a hazard.
Vulnerability
This describes a domino effect where one disaster impact leads to a multitude of others.
What are cascading effects?
This 2024 plan outlines the government's integrated approach to risk reduction and response.
National Disaster Readiness Plan
This "perspective" in disaster analysis focuses on mental health, anxiety, and trauma.
Psychological Perspectives
This was the most basic equation used in early Emergency Management, where a hazardous event was treated as an immediate disaster.
Hazard = Disaster