Natural Disaster risk assessment and risk management

Natural Disaster Assessment Risk

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4 April 2009

Earthquakes

The most probable disaster that would hit IUB is an earthquake . It is worth noting that as much as the US is not as prone to volcanism as Japan there have been developments that may have caused considerable change in the internal structure of the earth 's crust . It is further important to note that irrespective of the levels of volcanic activity defining a zone there is always some considerable levels of volcanic

br activity that are affected by man 's activity . The nature of volcanism can only be monitored and not controlled by man and therefore earthquakes can happen any time without IUB being in an earthquake prone region . Earthquakes from geological definition is a sudden release of energy and therefore as much as geologists can try to predict the events that lead to earthquakes there are several occasions where earthquakes have occurred without necessarily giving warning signs and proneness as a measure is only determined by past events and should therefore not be used as functional measure of determining if a place can suffer an earthquake disaster . One of the key causes of earthquakes in modern times is nuclear activity (State Emergency Management Agency , 2009 with recent increase in awareness on the threat that weapons of mass destruction , terrorism and increased use of radioactive substances in the development of nuclear energy there is little doubt that the US which has established itself as...