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What is Adjustment?
Changes designed to react and cope with a situation, such as the threat posed by a hazard.
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What is an Earthquake?
a violent shaking of the Earth's crust
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What i emeergnecy aid?
help in the form of food, medical care and temporary housing provided immediately after a hazard
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What is the Epicentre?
the point on the Erth's surface that is directly above the focus of the earthquake
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Hazard?
an event which threatens the well - being of people and their property
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infrastructure?
transpoert networks, sewage, communications that are vital to people their settlements and businesses
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Lahar?
a flow of wet material down the side of a volcano's ash cone which can become a seriouus hazard
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Natural disaster?
A natural event or haazrd that causes destruction to property as well as physical injuries and death
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Natural event
Something happpening in the physical environment, such as a storm, volcanic eruption or earthquake
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Plate movement?
mainly the coming together and the moving apart of tectonic plates
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Prediction
forecasting future events or changes
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Pyroclastic flow?
a devastating eruption of extremely hot gas, rock during a period of explosive volcanic activity. Can reach speeds down the hill of 200kph
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Risk assessment?
judging the degreee of damage and destruction that an area might experience as a result of a natural event
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Storm Surge?
rapid rise in sea level in which water piled against coast more than normal. happens at low atmospheric pressure
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Subduction?
pushing down of one tectonic plate under another collision plate boundary. Pressure and heat turns the plate to magma.
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Tropical revolving storm?
weather system of low pressure involving heavy wind & rain.
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Tsunami
Tidal wave caused by the shock waves originaating from submarine earthquke or volcanic eruption
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