Hazard types
- Created by: Julie Simpkin
- Created on: 07-05-13 18:23
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- Hazard types
- Hydrometeorol-ogical
- caused by running water or weather patterns
- Floods
- Hurricanes
- Drought
- Geophysical
- Caused by earths processes
- Tectonic: earthquake, tsunami, volcanic activity
- Geomorphological: mass movements e.g. landslides
- A disaster is the realisation of a hazardous event leadihg to loss of human life and property
- Hydrometeorol-ogical
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