ATOC 185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Disaster, Rail Delivery Group, Coastal Erosion
15 Dec 2015
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New orleans was built below sea level proximity to sea makes a place more vulnerable storm surges effected entire community because they were so close to the water mitigation would be to impose levees. Hazard: threat to human beings and their welfare/wellbeing. Vulnerability: potential loss from natural disasters (why people live where the do consider if a location is considered vulnerable before making decisions near a fault line) Disaster: hazardous event effecting social structure and ecosystems/economy. Prediction/forecasting: statement that an event will occur must know expected location and time frame and probability. Mitigation: efforts to minimize and lessen the effects of a natural disaster"s damage. Recurrence interval: average time interval between two natural disasters which helps us to find out probability of a natural disaster. Technology has improved our ability to make predictions with regards to certain events. Defining qualities: warm core, high temperature sea water, low pressure, no front, size can vary.
