Practical task №9

The regularities of natural disasters.

1. Give examples of the spatial distribution of natural disasters. Identify areas of

your country where natural disasters may occur?
Table 1
natural disasters region
earthquakes Taiwan Province and its adjacent waters, Southwest
China, West China, North China, Southeast Coast.
volcanic eruptions Heilongjiang Wudalianchi Volcano
Heilongjiang Jingpo Lake Volcano
Jilin Changbai Mountain Tianchi Volcano
Jilin Longgang Volcano
Tengchong volcano in Yunnan
tsunamis Taiwan, Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian, China
landslides China's southwest, northwest Loess Plateau region,
southeast, and the mountainous and hilly regions of
south-central provinces.
avalanches China's Xinjiang Tian Shan and Tibetan Everest
regions.
flood Southeastern Guangxi, Guangdong coast, Hainan,
Zhejiang coast and the junction of Zhejiang, Gan and
Anhui, Liaoning and local areas of Sichuan in China.
wildfire It occurs in parts of Inner Mongolia in China, and to a
lesser extent in some areas of North China, Northwest
China and Northeast China.

2 What does the duration of a natural disaster depend on? What is their destructive
power?
Crustal movement shifts, temperature increases, severe energy and environmental
disruptions, microbial changes.
Natural disasters not only cause damage to resources, direct economic and human
casualties, but also bring various indirect losses, and may even affect the stability and
sustainable development of society.

3. What is the relation of natural catastrophe recurrence rate to its intensity?

Fill in Table 2 to show the relationship between the frequency of natural disasters
and the intensity of a natural event. Make a conclusion about the relationship between
magnitude and the number of natural disasters. Use statistics from the internet for any
year to complete the table.
Table 2
Magnitude of Number of natural disasters (per year) in china
natural disaster earthquakes volcanic tsunamis landslides avalanches
eruptions
2 0 0 0 0 0
3 3 0 0 689 0
4 18 0 0 20759 0
5 7 0 0 499 0
6 4 0 0 382 0
7 1 0 0 0 0
8 0 0 0 0 0
9 0 0 0 0 0
10 0 0 0 0 0
 Conclusion: There is a quantitative power exponential relationship between the
magnitude of a hazard and the frequency of its occurrence. For all natural hazards, the
larger the hazard, the lower the frequency of occurrence and the longer the repetition
period; the smaller the hazard, the higher the frequency of occurrence and the shorter the
repetition period. The smaller the hazard, the higher the frequency and the shorter the
repetition period.
4. Can the occurrence of natural disasters be predicted?
No natural disaster can be accurately predicted; after all, nature is full of chance.
Although it is not possible to accurately predict the arrival of natural disasters in advance,
but can be done with a high probability of prediction. For example, the earthquake, when
the earthquake comes, in the vast majority of cases can be early warning to. But to be more
accurate time, according to the current level of technology is unable to do.
5. Can natural disasters occur in interaction with each other? How does their
intensity change?
There is a correlation between climate hazards, geological hazards and biological
hazards in nature. Climate hazards, geological hazards and biological hazards in nature
form a chain of hazards, such as pandemics following catastrophes; climate hazards often
induce landslides, mudslides and landslides, causing greater hazards, etc. Some natural
variability of greater intensity can also lead to many different kinds of disasters, and this
homology also reflects the causal linkage of disasters. For example, intense crustal
deformation, resulting in dramatic changes in the landscape, can also cause earthquakes,
seawater intrusion and other disasters while collapses and landslides occur; a cold wave
can occur at the same time whiteout, sea ice, etc.
6. What is the role of humans in activating natural hazards?
Natural disasters reflect the process of interaction between human activities and
ecological environment, and with economic development and urbanization of population,
this interaction is getting closer and closer, and natural disasters will become more and
more serious.

Wriitten by Cui Mengyan from IB-19-2.1