GG231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mercalli Intensity Scale, Richter Magnitude Scale, Lionsolver
Document Summary
The earth has been experiencing a number of intense disasters in the past decade including the hurricanes of 2005 and the japan tsunami of 2011. We have also seen widespread loss of life from diseases such as aids and we are possibly on the brink of another deadly pandemic in the bird flu. Hazards: the probability that a specific damaging event will happen within a particular period of time. Natural hazards include processes and events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods and fires. The non-natural hazards include those caused by people including pandemics, warfare, and technological disasters such as regional power failures. In this course we consider diseases and related hazards such as pandemics as part of the natural processes under the heading of biological hazards. Geomorphological and hydrological (module two lessons 5-6) Technological hazards (module five lesson 11) Violence and war hazards (module five lesson 11) Human-induced long-term hazards (module six lesson 12)
