Hydrologic Hazards
Atmospheric Hazards
Types of Hazards (climatological, geophysical, hydrological)
Classifying Hazards (local, regional, global)
Geological Hazards
100

Quick thunderstorm can produce this.

Flash flooding

100

Unstable atmospheric conditions make this.

Tornado

100

A sinkhole develops in the middle of Guatemala City and knocks out power to the city.

Geophysical

100

Flash flood in Madison, WI infiltrates a water treatment plant and makes the water undrinkable.

Local

100

This occurs when a mountain explodes.

Volcanic Eruption

200

In the Western hemisphere, these are called hurricanes

Typhoons

200

A low lying cloud.

Fog

200

Wildfires burn through the state of California due to drought.

Climatological

200

A Tsunami occurs at all coasts along the Pacific Ocean and floods farmland.

Regional 

200

This happens when a tectonic plate shifts

Earthquake

300

This occurs due to repeated dry conditions.

Drought

300

Erosion of the state Florida coastline because of ocean waves.

Hydrological

300

Wildfires burn through the state of California due to drought.

Regional

300

These form after an Earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption occurs

Tsunami

400

A precipitation event during which a coating of ice forms on exposed objects by the freezing of supercooled water deposited by rain, drizzle, and/or fog.

Freezing Ice Storm
400

A heatwave raises temperatures across the Midwest during the summer of 2016.

Climatological

400

Indonesian volcano Tambora erupted in 2015 causing loss of life, Earth cooling by several degrees, widespread famine and disease outbreaks

Global

400

Resulting hazard when soil that is permanently frozen, often near cliffsides near coastal waters that can collapse on itself.

Permafrost

500

Can sometimes fall during a t-storm accompanying the rain.

Hail

500

A Tsunami occurs at all coasts along the Pacific Ocean and floods farmland.

Geophysical

500

A volcanic eruption in Hawaii sends lava traveling down the mountainside into a town.

Local

500

If you take an avalanche and remove the snow.

Rock Slide