A natural hazard caused by movement of tectonic plates (including volcanoes and earthquakes).
Tectonic Hazard
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Actions taken before a hazard strikes to reduce its impact, such as educating people or improving building design.
Protection
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Actions taken to enable communities to respond to and recover from natural disasters, through measures such as warning systems and evacuation plans
Planning
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Tectonic plate margin where two plates are converging/coming together (subduction of the oceanic plate). Associated with violent earthquakes and explosive volcanoes
Destructive Plate Margin
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Attempts to forecast when and where a natural hazard may occur based on current knowledge (can be done to some extent for volcanic eruptions and tropical storms, not so reliable for earthquakes)
Prediction
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The reaction of people as the disaster happens and in the immediate aftermath
Immediate Response
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The initial impact of a natural event on people and poverty caused directly by it. For example, the buildings collapsing following an earthquake
Primary Effects
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Recording physical changes, such as earthquake tremors around a volcano, to help forecast when and where a natural hazard might strike
Monitoring
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An opening in the Earth's crust from which lava, ash and gases erupt
Volcano
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Tectonic plate margin where rising magma adds new material to plates that are diverging/moving apart
Constructive Plate Margin
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The margin or boundary between two tectonic plates
Plate Margin
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Later reactions that occur in the weeks, months and years after the event
Long-Term Responses
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A rigid segment of the Earth's crust which can 'float' across the heavier, semi-molten rock below. Continental plates are less dense but thicker than oceanic plates
Techtonic Plate
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Techtonic plate margin where two plates slide past each other
Conservative Plated Margin
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A natural event (e.g. earthquake, volcanic eruption, tropical storm etc.) that threatens people or has the potential to cause damage, destruction and death
Natural Hazard
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A sudden or violent movement within the Earth's crust followed by a series of shocks
Earthquake
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The after-effects that occur as indirect impacts of a natural event (sometimes on a longer timescale). For example, fires due to ruptured gas mains resulting from the ground shaking
Secondary Effects
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Card 2
Front
Actions taken before a hazard strikes to reduce its impact, such as educating people or improving building design.
Back
Protection
Card 3
Front
Actions taken to enable communities to respond to and recover from natural disasters, through measures such as warning systems and evacuation plans
Back
Card 4
Front
Tectonic plate margin where two plates are converging/coming together (subduction of the oceanic plate). Associated with violent earthquakes and explosive volcanoes
Back
Card 5
Front
Attempts to forecast when and where a natural hazard may occur based on current knowledge (can be done to some extent for volcanic eruptions and tropical storms, not so reliable for earthquakes)
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