1.Disasters are often described as a result of the combination of: he
exposure to a hazard; the conditions of vulnerability that are present; and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the
potential negative consequences
.
2.Disaster can be prevented
3.Disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a
society causing widespread human, material, economic or
environmental losses, which exceed the ability of the affected
community or society to cope, using its own resources
.
4.Vehicular accident is considered as a disaster.
5.Vulnerability is a set of prevailing or consequential conditions, which
adversely affect the community’s ability to prevent, mitigate, prepare
for and respond to hazardous events.
6.Capacities are resources, means and strengths which exist in
households and in the community and which enable them to cope
with, withstand, prepared for, prevent, mitigate or quickly recover
from a disaster.
7.All Filipinos whether rich or poor are vulnerable to disasters.
8.Impact-damage is beyond the normal capacity of the community o
withstand
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9.The vulnerability and capacity of a community is indicative of a
disaster’s proportion.
10.The Philippines is the most vulnerable country to disasters in Asia.
11.The Philippines is located along the typhoon belt I the Pacific.
12.The Philippines is not located in the Pacific ring of fire.
13.Typhoon Haiyan known locally as Yolanda took place in 2012.
14.Philippines has the lowest risk score in the world.
15.An average of twenty typhoon each year occur in the Philippines.
