DRR

GEOLOGICAL
1. BOLIDE IMPACT EVENTS
- any extraterrestial object
 ASTEROIDS
 COMETS
 METEOROIDS
 METEORS
 METEORITES
1. Extinction of dinosaurs
2. Canyon Diablo Crater in USA (50
meters in diameter)
3. Southern Russia (Feb 15, 2013)
- injured 1500 people
-7200 buildings destroyed
4. 1908 Tunguska event
-wrecked a remote forest in Siberia
- largest known
EFFECTS OF LARGE IMPACT

1. CHANGES IN CLIMATIC CONDITION

2. WILDFIRES
3. TSUNAMIS
4. ACID RAIN
GROUND
SUBSIDENCE
Lowering of the earth’s
surface
CAUSES
1. Dissolution and collapse of
limestone
2. Excessive water withdrawal
3. Mining
4. Oil and gas extraction
5. Earthquakes
6. Change in season
QUESTIONS
1. What is the best way to avoid
the effects of ground
subsidence?
2. What engineering remedial
measures can be applied to
buildings affected by ground
subsidence?
COASTAL EROSION
Wearing away of the of
coastal land or beaches
CAUSES
NATURAL MAN-MADE
-waves -removal of
-currents vegetation
-tides -construction
-wind driven -activities
wave -shipping and
-storm boating activities
EFFECTS
1. Modify the landscape
2. Infrastructure
destructions
3. Property loss
4. Waning tourism
 QUESTIONS TO
1.ANSWER:
In what ways can the natural process
of coastal erosion be accelerated?
2. Why is the Philippines very prone to
coastal erosion?
3. What is the easiest and low-cost
method of preventing damage due to
coastal erosion?
4. Cite instances when the construction
of protective structures is considered
not beneficial?
FIRE
HAZARDS
WHAT DOES IT
TAKE TO
START A FIRE?
 HARMFUL
BENEFITS EFFECTS
 HEAT
OXYGE FUEL
N CHEMICA
L
OXIDATIO
N oxygen and other substances
Involves the combination of

Apple
Potato
Jewelry
HEAT
CONDUCTION
CONVECTION
RADIATION
FUEL
Any solid, liquid and
gas substance that can
be burned
OXIDIZING
AGENT
Substance that releases
oxygen
Ex: chlorine, fluorine,
iodine nitric acid
STAGES OF
FIRE
1. IGNITION
2. GROWTH STAGE

3. FULLY-DEVELOPED FIRE
STAGE
4. DECAY STAGE