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Hazard: Is the potential for a natural or human-caused event to occur with negative consequences Emergency: Is a situation generated by the real or imminent occurrence of an event that requires immediate attention Disaster: A serious disruption in the functioning of the community or a society causing wide spread material, economic, social or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected society to cope using its own resources. Risk: Is the probability that loss will occur as the result of an adverse event, given the hazard and the vulnerability Risk (R) can be determined as a product of hazard (H) and vulnerability (V). i.e. R = H x V Vulnerability: Is the extent to which a communitys structure, services or environment is likely to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of a hazard
Trigger Events
HAZARD
Elements at Risk
Physical Socio-Economic
Population Expansion
Illness & Disabilities Age/ Sex, Poverty Economic-Social-Political Unsafe Conditions:
Dangerous Location
Dangerous buildings
Is Dependent on : Lead Time Available. Intensity of Hazard. Duration. Spatial Extent. Density of Population & Assets. Time of Occurrence.
FOG: During recent years, ooccurrences of Large-scale intense fog conditions over Indo-Gangetic Plains in each winter have been causing very low visibility over most parts of the region severely disrupting various essential transport services e.g. flight, Train, highway services, ferries or boat services in rivers etc., used by various sections of the people for their day to travels living in the region. As a result, it has been paralyzing their normal life besides causing loss of hundreds of corers of rupees to these transport sectors. It also severely affects agricultures by affecting important crops like wheat, mustard etc. Data of Fog 2009-2010 shows December hardly experienced any dense fog conditions(reducing general visibility <200m), January ended in 172 hours of dense fog alone in the season, an ever highest record in the month since 1960s which disrupted the aviation service severely. Earlier, extreme fogs of 179 and 168 hours were also occurred at IGI and other parts of the region during Dec 1998 and Jan 2003 respectively. Besides 217 diversion flights alone at IGI Airport with cancellation and delaying of 1000s flights during last Jan 2010, Indian railway has three train mishaps in Utter Pradesh leaving 10 dead during when the first spell of the dense fog affected region in the last week of Dec and first week of Jan 2009-2010.
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