A naturally occurring event or process that has the potential to affect people
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Natural Disaster
A major natural hazard that causes significant social, environmental and economic damage
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Vulnerability
The ability to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from a natural hazard
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Paleomagnetism
The study of past changes in the Earth's magnetic field
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Water column
The area of seawater from the surface to the sea floor
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Resilience
The ability to protect lives, livelihoods and infrastructure from destruction, and to restore areas after a natural hazard has occured
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Hazard event
A natural hazard such as an earthquake, volcanic eruption or tsunami
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Mantle plume
An upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earths mantle
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Intraplate
When a tectonic hazard occurs in the interior of a plate rather than at the boundary
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Convection
The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter, less dense material to rise and colder, denser material to sink
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Seismic
Vibrations of the earth or its crust
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Slab pull
The portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction
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Sea floor spreading
The formation of fresh areas of oceanic crust which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid-ocean ridges, and its subsequent outward movement on either side
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Basalt
Igneous rock, formed by lava
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Andesite
Volcanic rock formed from lava
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Rhyolite
Volcanic rock
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Benioff zone
An inclined zone in which many deep earthquakes occur, situated beneath a destructive plate boundary where oceanic crust is being subjected
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Primary waves
Alternatingly compressional and extensional, which can travel through solids liquids and gases
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Secondary waves
A wave that causes the thing it is travelling through to move perpendicular to the direction of the wave
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LiLiquefaction
Where a saturated soil loses strength in response to an earthquake, causing it to move like a liquid
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Water displacement
When the movement of a plate causes the water above it to move, as the plate is occupying the space that the water was originally in
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Pyroclastic flows
A dense, destructive mass of very to ash, lava and gases ejected from a volcano at great speed
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Jokulhlaups
A type of glacial outburst flood
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Mega disaster
An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of exceptional magnitude, causing sever damage
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Development
An event constituting a new stage in a changing situation
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Socio-economic
The influence of social and economic factors
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Resilience
The capacity to resist and recover from loss
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Hazard profile
Shows the nature of different tectonic hazards
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Governance
The action or manner of governing a state or organisation
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Inequality
Difference in size, degree or circumstance
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
A major natural hazard that causes significant social, environmental and economic damage
Back
Natural Disaster
Card 3
Front
The ability to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from a natural hazard
Back
Card 4
Front
The study of past changes in the Earth's magnetic field
Back
Card 5
Front
The area of seawater from the surface to the sea floor
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