NATURAL HAZARDS
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- Created on: 10-03-18 08:32
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- NATURAL HAZARDS
- Two types of natural hazards
- 1. Geological
- caused by land and tectonic processes
- Volcanoes
- Earthquakes
- landslides
- Avalanches
- 2. Metearological
- caused by weather and climate
- tropical storms
- heatwaves
- climate change
- 1. Geological
- Factors that affect hazard risk
- Vulnerability
- more people in areas exposed to natural hazards more vulnerability
- eg Bangladesh, high pop density
- more people in areas exposed to natural hazards more vulnerability
- Capacity to cope
- HIC cope better than LIC, can afford to evacuate people, build flood defences
- Nature of natural hazards
- Type, eg tropical storms can be predicted
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- Frequency, some occur more often
- Magnitude, more severe ones cause greater effects
- Vulnerability
- Two types of natural hazards
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