B.Tech.

DEGREE EXAMINATION,
NOVEIIBER 2018
3rd to 7ft Semester

I 5CE346E _ DISASTER MANAGEN4ENT

AND MITIGATION.
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(D Part - A should be in oMR sheet within first 45 minutes
"ts\rered
over to hall invigilator and oMR sheet should be handed
at the end of 456 minute.
(it) Part - B an, part - c shouta u-e answlreo
in answer booklet

Time: Three Hours

Max. Marks: 100
PART _A (20 x I = 20 Marks)
Answer ALL euestions
1. The chairman of the National Disaste manaciSTl authority is
(A) Home minister 'r
(B) chief minister
(c) Prime minister (D) Vice president
2. National institute of disaster management is
at
(A) puqjab
(c) NewDelhi @) ManiPur
(D) Hyderabad
3' The terrn disaster is derived from
which of the folrowing ranguage.
(A) Latin (B) Arabic
(C) Greek (D) French
4. The disaster management act was made
in the year
(A) 2004 (B) 2oo5
(c) 2006 (D) 2oo7
5. Earthquakes me caused by slippage
--*'';i"1:i-
within geological
(A) Crust
(C) Mantle (B) Fautts ---
--
@) Surface
6. Landslides often occur in
(A) Desert region (B) Forest region
(c) Tundra region @) Hillyregion
7. Avalanches take place in
(A) HrCh ajtitudes
(c) Gro,nd rever @) Low latitudes
(D) Beneath the ocean
8. Geothermal enerry is generated from
(A) Volcanoes
(c) Floods " q) Earthquakes
@) Landslides
n was the first use of Nuclear bomb
dropped which caused death to the
,H; millions of
(A) Kmachi
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diseases in human like Answer ANY FIVE Questions
10. Polluted water causes
(B) T'B
At--sl;k""ts andDiarrhea (D) Abdominal
(C) Fever Pain 21. Write the disaster management cycle'
to leakage ofwhich gas?

i;i
-&ffiil"."I*uor,
11. The Bhopal gas tragedy occuned
due
@) Methane
22. Give abrief note on flood'

ICi il;-dliso"yanide @) carbonmonoxide 23. Explain forest fire and building fre'
and
may block heat from escaping in to space the preparedness plan for nahral disaster
cyclone'
1.2. Too many greenhouse gEISes in the atrnosphere 24. Write
causmg --.--'
trap too much heat next to the surtace
iai e**q*t G) Globalyu""'"-c
(D) Volcanic eruPtions
25. ExPlain disaster mitigation
(C) Ice age
26. Give a brief note on earthquake'
13. How many phase disaster responses are there?
(A)6 (B) s 27 . Give a brief note on nuclear disaster'
(c)4 (D)3
PART - C (5 xl2=60 Marks)
14. The first step in preparedness plamring is AnswerALL Questions
(A) (B) Determination of objectives
collected
Analysis of d'ata management cycle'
28. a. Explain in detail about the disaster
(c) Develop*.ni"- or-- i*pt"-enting @) Determinationof stategy (oR)
of govemment of India for monitoring the
,r. **"fl*ir* the fo,owing is the nodal S.gency b. Write short notes on
seismic activity in and moundthe county? (i) Disaster
--Gi)- -TGk--
authoritY (ii1) Hazxd
@) Indian meteorological deparffnent (iv)
(C) Indian space resemch organization VulnerabilitY

is related to 29. a. Discuss in detail about earthquake'

16. Disaster management cycles
(A) Recovery and mitigation
(B) Response, recovery' mitigation' (oR)
preparedness
b. Discuss in detail about flood'
(C) (D) Preparedness and resPonse
Response andrecovery
30. a. Write in detail about
17. OGC stands for (t) Airpollution
(A) OPen geoscience commuilty
(B) Open geosPatial consortium (iD Water Pollution
oiti"" geoscience communitY (D) Oil and gas corporate (oR)
ici
the weather b. Write in detail about
18. The agency that provide information about (B) (1) Coal fire
(A) trvID (D)
ISr
(ir) Oil fire
(c) ISo cGwB
(iii) Deforestation
and tsunami?
19. The population gpowth of India is at
the rate of 1. a. What is the post disaster stage plan for landslide
(A)'2.r%peryear
3
(oR)
(C) 10%PerYem B, lf"7,r;*T*- Explain in detail about pre disaster stage'
b.
has been installed at which among
the following
20. The permanent seismological observatory 32. a- What is an observatory and
how does it help in disaster mitigation?
places in India- (oR)
(A) PalanPur, Gujarat @) Latur, Maharashtra
@) Pune, Maharashtra b. Explain in detail about seismological observatory'
ici Ctramoti, Uttarakhand
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