Many people confuse both natural hazards and disasters, but the two terms have completely separate meanings. When an earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, tornado, or other natural occurrence happens, they are automatically classified as natural hazards. Sometimes, natural hazards conflict with a population of humans, and when natural hazards affect humans, only then do they become natural [...]

Regardless of where you live, there is always a threat of a natural disaster affecting you. Some areas are more prone to a natural disaster, such as the mid-west of the United States being prone to tornadoes or California being likely to experience an earthquake, but any area in the United States may experience a [...]

A natural disaster is the result of when a natural hazard affects humans. The amount of human vulnerability is the factor that leads to financial, environmental, or human impact. The amount of vulnerability that humans may have to a natural hazard can be subsided by proper emergency management, preparedness, and mitigation. The amount of damage [...]

Emergency management is a relatively new discipline that deals with the prevention of natural disasters and recovery from them. The discipline involves mitigation, which is the practice of preventing natural hazards from developing into natural disasters, preparation for the natural disasters occurring, response to them, and finally the recovery process. Emergency management is a term [...]

Natural disaster management is a discipline that is involved with determining risks, minimizing those risks, and recovering when the risks come to fruition during such events as a natural disaster. There are four phases in natural disaster management:
Mitigation:
Steps taken to prevent a disaster from occurring or minimizing the risk of a natural hazard becoming a [...]

An earthquake is the shaking of the earth’s surface caused from a sudden release of energy usually from pressure built up in earth’s tectonic plates. Earthquakes can be recorded and measured using a seismograph. Seismographs use the Richter scale to measure the size of an earthquake, with a 3 or lower earthquake being minor and [...]

Earthquakes are a natural disaster that can cause a massive amount of property damage and casualties. They are very difficult to predict and can result in further dangers, such as aftershocks, floods, landslides, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Worse of all, the damages caused by an earthquake can be far and wide within a given [...]

A tsunami is a series of large waves that are created in the ocean or another large body of water, usually caused by an earthquake, a landslide, a volcanic eruption, or meteorite impact into the body of water. When a tsunami hits a coastline, it capable of causing a massive amount of destruction. Many people [...]

The National Incident Management System (NIMS) is an emergency response system that is designed to improve preparation, coordination, and incident management in the event of a crisis. The system is designed to coordinate emergency response teams in the federal, state, and local agency levels. The NIMS is a system that was designed and implemented into [...]

The Department of Homeland Security published the National Incident Management System (NIMS) on March 1st, 2004. The main goal of the NIMS structure was to provide a universal incident command guideline so that all organizations, both public, private, or governmental can cooperate with each other across various jurisdictions, including Federal, State, local, and tribal, in [...]