PPT-U.S. Natural Disasters Floods

Earthquakes Fires Hurricanes Tornadoes Volcanoes Tsunamis Extreme Cold amp Heat Floods Most common disaster in the US Turn around dont drown WCN 247 Flooding Terms Flood Watch possible. riparians. . Priyanka Mallick. JNU. . Outline. Background. GBM River Basin. Floods in GBM. Existing Mechanism. Regional Cooperation. Flood. Flooding is a normal seasonal inundation of floodplain to which traditional settlements, infrastructure and land use are well adapted.. . Chapter 18 . The Future: Where Do We Go From Here?. We Are The Problem. Problems arise when people put themselves where they can be impacted by major natural events. Building in the floodplain. Building in lahar channels. NATURAL CATASTROPHES. . . THERE ARE TERRIBLE EVENTS CAUSED BY BOTH THE POWER OF NATURE AND BY MAN’S WORK. THEY ARE MAINLY DUE TO THE CONSTANT RELEASE IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF EXTREMELY DANGEROUS POLLUTANTS, PREVALENTLY GASES, WHICH DETERMINE PROGRESSIVE, IRREVERSIBLE GLOBAL WARMING, WITH STAGGERING EFFECTS ON OUR PLANET.. Statistics 2011. 332 Natural Disasters were recorded. Killed 30,773 people. 244.7 million victims of these disasters. Costs $366.1 billion. China, the United States, the Philippines, India and Indonesia constitute together the top 5 countries that are most frequently hit by natural disasters. . Cyclone . Thunderstorm. Wild fire. What is the connection between these pictures?. Tsunami . Land slide. What is the connection between these pictures?. Floods. Drought . Answers. Cyclone Thunderstorms Wildfire. Earthquakes, Tsunamis. Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Ice Storms. Volcano's. H1N1, . Zika. Virus. Forest Fires. Plague of Locusts. Joel. I. Something To Tell Your Children About . 1-4. Hear 2a. Question 2b. National . Authority for Civil Protection . Luis Sá. Concepts. 1.By popular demand we know that a flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land.. 2. EU Floods directive defines a flood as a “. Prof. Dr. Jan D. Reinhardt. 1,2. 1. Institute . for. . Disaster. Management . and. . Reconstruction. . of. . Sichuan. University . and. Hong Kong . Polytechnic. University, Chengdu, China. 2 . WP2.1 . & WP2.2 Development of master curricula in WB . HEIs. Prof. Giuseppe Tito . Aronica. University of Messina – Department of Engineering, . ITALY. Slavisa Trajkovic, M. i. lan Gocic. University of Nis, Serbia. Unit Four Emergency Management in the United States This unit describes emergency management in the United States It defines the four phases of emergency management as well as other important te Elements of the physical environment, harmful to man and caused by forces extraneous to him or,. All atmospheric, hydrologic, geologic, and wildfire phenomena that have potential to affect humans, their structures, or their activities adversely. Tornadoes. A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of the earth with the base of a cumulonimbus cloud.. Tornadoes come in many different shapes and sizes but are in form of a funnel. . There narrow end touches the earth and has a cloud of dust and debris that flows with it. . Word Bank. Bioterrorism. Carbon monoxide. Epidemiology. Evacuation. Outbreak. Public Health. study of the distribution and control of health-related issues, including diseases . leaving an area to escape a potential disaster. By: Arman Nejat . Dehkordi. Islamic Azad University, Tehran Branch, Iran. NaDiMa online Dialogue #4. 27 October 2020. Experiences obtained from current floods in Iran. with the focus on flood in March, 2019, in Lorestan.