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Hazard Vs Disaster: Always Always Always

A natural hazard refers to a natural event or process that poses a threat to people, structures, or economic assets. A hazard only becomes a disaster when it affects a vulnerable human population or settlement. According to Dreger's model, a disaster occurs when the destructive power of a hazard interacts with and overcomes the vulnerability of human populations and their infrastructure. Philippine law defines a disaster as a serious disruption of society that exceeds its ability to cope using its own resources, resulting in widespread human, material, or environmental losses.

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Hazard Vs Disaster: Always Always Always

A natural hazard refers to a natural event or process that poses a threat to people, structures, or economic assets. A hazard only becomes a disaster when it affects a vulnerable human population or settlement. According to Dreger's model, a disaster occurs when the destructive power of a hazard interacts with and overcomes the vulnerability of human populations and their infrastructure. Philippine law defines a disaster as a serious disruption of society that exceeds its ability to cope using its own resources, resulting in widespread human, material, or environmental losses.

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HAZARD VS DISASTER

ALWAYS FIRST ALWAYS READY ALWAYS THERE


All of these are natural events.
When Does a Natural Event
Become a Hazard?
is a phenomenon that poses threat to people,
structure or economic assets
WHAT IS A NATURAL HAZARD?
• A natural hazard is a natural event or process
which affects people causing loss of life or
injury, economic damage, disruption to
peoples’ lives or environmental degradation
HOW DOES A HAZARD
BECOME A DISASTER?
How a hazard becomes a disaster?
– Dregg’s model
WHEN DOES A HAZARD
BECOME A DISASTER?

A disaster happens when


the probable destructive
agent, the hazard, hits a
vulnerable populated area
WHEN DOES A HAZARD
BECOME A DISASTER?
WHEN DOES A HAZARD
BECOME A DISASTER?
Natural hazards are part and parcel of
the Philippine environment, but
disasters happen because human
settlements, infrastructures, people
and economic activities are placed
where hazards happen
RA 10121 Definition of Disaster

…A serious disruption in the functioning of a


society, causing widespread human, material
or environmental losses which exceeds the
ability of the affected society to cope within its’
own resources…
State of Calamity

A condition involving mass casualty


and/or major damages to property,
disruption of means of livelihoods, roads
and normal way of life of people in the
affected areas as a result of the
occurrence of natural or human-induced
hazard
Among the effects:

Loss of life
Loss of livelihoods
Damage to property
Destruction of infrastructure
Damage to the environment
Financial loss
Diversion of resources
Epidemics
Migration
Displaced people or refugees
Food shortages
Insecurity

The Philippine National Red Cross


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