Tectonic Processes and Hazards

Tectonic Processes and Hazards

1. Why are some locations more at risk from tectonic hazards than others?

   • Distribution and causes of tectonic hazards
     • Intra-plate processes
     • Plate boundaries
     • Processes moving the tectonic plates
   • Plate tectonic theory
   • Physical tectonic processes
     • Earthquakes and earthquake waves
     • Secondary hazards
     • Volcanic processes

2. Why do some tectonic hazards develop into disasters?

   • Hazards, vulnerability, resilience and disasters
     • Defining risk, hazard and disaster
     • Magnitude and intensity scales
   • Tectonic hazard profiling
     • Pressure and Release model and hazard risk equation
     • Socio-economic impacts
   • Influence of development and governance
     • Impacts in different types of country
     • Inequalities, vulnerability and resilience

3. How successful is the management of tectonic hazards and disasters?

   • Tectonic disaster trends and patterns
     • Disaster trends and context
     • Significance of disasters
     • Multiple-hazard zones
   • Tectonic hazard management frameworks
     • Responses to hazards
     • Stages of hazard management
   • Mitigation and adaption strategies
     • Mitigation = actions and interventions that a community may take to reduce vulnerability in advance of a tectonic hazard event.
     • Adaption = ways communities may be able to live with a tectonic hazard by making adjustments