Across
- 4. An event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
- 6. Rapidly flowing thick mixture of volcanic sediments and water.
- 9. A type of natural hazard that includes internal earth processes.
- 11. The act of moving people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe.
- 13. Combination of all the strengths, attributes and resources available within a community, society or organization that can be used to achieve agreed goals.
- 14. Preventative, anticipatory actions in order to be safe.
- 16. An unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action.
- 17. A process that transforms the behavior of a body of sediments from that of a solid to that of a liquid when subjected to extremely intense shaking.
- 20. People, property, systems and other elements present in hazard zones that are thereby subject to potential loss.
- 22. Disaster risk factor that includes state of mental capacity and health of a person.
- 23. A feeble shaking to violent trembling of the ground produced by the sudden displacement of rocks or rock materials below the earth’s surface.
- 24. A series of giant sea waves commonly generated by under-the-sea earthquakes.
- 26. Measures that ensure the ability of affected communities and/or areas to restore their normal level of function .
- 28. Lessening or limitation of the adverse impacts of hazards and related disasters.
- 29. The art of making or displaying fireworks.
Down
- 1. Movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope.
- 2. Hazards caused either by rapid or slow onset events which can be geophysical, hydrological, climatological, meteorological, or biological.
- 3. Phenomenon in which fire that has consumed all available oxygen suddenly explodes when more oxygen is made available, usually because a door or window is opened.
- 5. Displacement on the ground due to movement of fault .
- 7. A type of hazard that includes tropical cyclones, thunderstorms, hailstorms, etc.
- 8. The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, professional response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from, the impacts of likely, imminent or current hazard events or conditions.
- 10. Outright avoidance of adverse impacts of hazards and related disasters.
- 12. Type of hazard that includes industrial pollution, nuclear radiation, toxic wastes, dam failures, transport accidents, factory explosions, fires, and chemical spills.
- 15. A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
- 18. The adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects.
- 19. Local storms produced by cumulonimbus clouds and are always accompanied by lightning and thunder, usually with strong wind gusts, heavy rain and sometimes with hail and/or tornado.
- 21. A dangerous phenomenon, substance, human activity or condition that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption, or environmental damage.
- 25. The characteristics and circumstances of a community, system or asset that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.
- 27. Disaster risk factor that includes government structure, diplomatic issues, etc.
- 30. Interaction between exposure to natural hazards including the adverse effects of climate changes and the vulnerability of societies.