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Disaster

Each natural disaster can impact health, property, and the economy. Volcanic eruptions can cause respiratory illnesses and injuries, destroy property, and cost billions in damage to agriculture and fisheries. Floods can spread disease, cause structural home damage worth billions, and wet personal belongings. Earthquakes may impact mental health and cause trauma from building collapses alongside structural damage costing billions. Tsunamis can also impact mental health and cause injuries, as well as wash away buildings and cost billions in losses.

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Disaster

Each natural disaster can impact health, property, and the economy. Volcanic eruptions can cause respiratory illnesses and injuries, destroy property, and cost billions in damage to agriculture and fisheries. Floods can spread disease, cause structural home damage worth billions, and wet personal belongings. Earthquakes may impact mental health and cause trauma from building collapses alongside structural damage costing billions. Tsunamis can also impact mental health and cause injuries, as well as wash away buildings and cost billions in losses.

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For each of natural disaster problem listed below, state one possible effect on health, property, and

economic cost. (If there is no effect for a particular category, write ‘nil’ in the space)

Natural Disaster Impact on Health Impact on Economic Cost Example


Property
Volcano People can have This can cause Economic damage Last January 2020,
illness like property burying of volcanic There’s an eruption
respiratory illness, towns and villages eruption is of Taal Volcano in
burns, injuries within minutes. It estimated to the Philippines.
from falls and destroys houses, around 4 billion The roads are filled
vehicle accidents roads, and fields. pesos due to the of spewed lava and
or even worst it ash that affects emitted hazardous
can cause major agriculture and amounts of
loss of life. fisheries sectors. volcanic ash fall
and gasses.
Flood People can get a This can cause The Department of There’s a tropical
disease because of heavy structural Agriculture storm last year
flood. They may damage to homes estimates the named Ulysses that
get leptospirosis by and can carry away damage and it really affects
walking on the large pieces of could cost 2.6 people’s live. The
flood because it property such as Billion pesos. tropical storm this
contains urine of vehicles. This can 2021 named
infected animals. wet your things in ‘Dante’ triggers
People can die. the houses that it deadly flash floods
can be damage. and evacuations.
Earthquake This may affect This may affect our It loss a thousands 20years ago, In
people’s mental roads and houses. of live and caused 1968 August 2,
health. It may If the earthquake is an estimated 12.9 Casiguran
leave them a so strong, there billion dollar in Earthquake. This
major, minor, and may have been damages and was considered the
fatal trauma structural damage losses, equivalent most severe and
because of building to buildings, fires, to 4.7 percent of destructive
and road collapses, damage to bridges the country’s GDP earthquake
moving and falling and highways. in 2013. experience in the
objects. Philippines.
Tsunami It also may affect This disaster may It costs a Billion The earthquake
mental health of wash out buildings, dollars out of struck below the
the people and they constructions, a recorded economic North Pacific
may get injuries city. It’s big losses for Ocean, 130
such as broken damage and tsunamis. Kilometers east of
limbs and head destruction of Sendai, the largest
injuries because homes and city on the Tohoku
you cannot control businesses because region, a northern
the wave of the you cannot stop the part of the island of
water in tsunami water from Honshu. The
and there’s a lot of entering or Tohoku earthquake
objects damaging your caused a tsunami.
everywhere. houses and
buildings.

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