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Disaster Readiness & Risk Reduction

Activity Sheet no. 2: Exposure & Vulnerability

Name: Mehl Humphrey T. Daugdaug Date: February 29, 2024

Section: 11 – STEM 1 Name of the teacher: Ms. Naihma Mae E. Casicas
Score: /30

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING:

This activity aims to allow the learners to identify and explain how hazard, exposure, and
vulnerability contribute to their selected topic’s disaster risks and effects.

List the exposure and its corresponding vulnerability and effect observed in your immediate
vicinity or community. List at least 5 of these.

Address: Cagayan de Oro City

Exposure Vulnerability Effect

Example:

open dumpsite with informal
settlements of 250,000
residents, heavy
rainfall, excess gas pressure
high level of poverty and loss of lives and properties and
unemployment, low level health risks among residents
of education, location of
houses, and poor waste

management

1. An open dumpsite situated The location of houses in The consequences of these

amidst informal settlements close proximity to the conditions include the loss of
housing approximately dumpsite and inadequate lives and properties, as well as
250,000 residents, waste management heightened health risks among
compounded by heavy rainfall practices contribute residents, particularly in the
and excess gas pressure due to significantly to vicinity of Cagayan de Oro
waste decomposition. vulnerability. City.

2. A sprawling informal The residents of the With each occurrence of natural

settlement established on settlement experience hazards, there is a heightened
unstable hillsides in a region
characterized by frequent
landslides and flash floods.
3. A coastal city facing rising
sea levels and increased
frequency of storm surges
due to climate change,
compounded by inadequate
coastal protection measures.
4. A densely populated urban
area situated near a major
fault line, prone to frequent
earthquakes and aftershocks.
5. A riverine settlement
situated along a major river
prone to seasonal flooding,
exacerbated by deforestation
and land-use changes
upstream.
extreme poverty and lack risk of property damage, loss of
access to basic livelihoods, and casualties
infrastructure, such as among the population,
secure housing and clean particularly in the aftermath of
water sources. heavy rainfall of seismic events.
The city’s population As sea levels continue to rise
includes marginalized and extreme weather events
communities living in become more frequent, there
informal settlements along is a heightened risk of coastal
the coastline, lacking access inundation, property, damage,
to proper infrastructure and displacement, and loss of
resources for disaster lives among vulnerable
resilience. communities in the coastal
areas.
The urban population In the event of a significant
includes marginalized groups earthquake, there is a high
living in substandard housing risk of widespread
with inadequate structural destruction, loss of life, and
resilience to seismic activity. disruption of essential
services, particularly in
vulnerable neighborhoods
with poor building standards
and limited access to
resources.
The riverine population lacks During periods of heavy
access to secure housing and rainfall and riverine flooding,
flood-resistant infrastructure, there is a heightened risk of
increasing susceptibility to inundation, property damage,
riverine floods and associated loss of agricultural land, and
risks. displacement of communities
living in flood-prone areas
along the riverbanks.