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How are tectonic hazards perceived and managed?

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AS Level Geography AS G1 Mind Map on How are tectonic hazards perceived and managed?, created by CGreen1997 on 08/05/2014.
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How are tectonic hazards perceived and managed?
  1. Why people live in potentially hazardous places
    1. Hazards are unpredictable
      1. The level of risk may have increased since they moved there
        1. They accept hazards as an inevitable possibility
          1. Benefits of living there outway the hazard consequences
            1. Unable to move elsewhere
            2. Management
              1. Preperation
                1. Store emergency equipment such as tents, clean water, food supplies, first aid and search and rescue gear.
                  1. Train specialist workers for a hazardous event.
                    1. Raise public awareness
                      1. Set up warning systems and evacuation plans
                        1. Set up insurance
                          1. Ensure households have emergency kits available and ready
                          2. Immediate response
                            1. Coordinate search and rescue
                              1. Establish medical reception centres
                                1. Establish alternative accommodation and emergency shelters
                                  1. Provide clean water, wood and sanitary facilities
                                    1. Set up communication channels
                                      1. Ensure households and businesses turn off gas supplies to prevent fires
                                      2. Longer-term response
                                        1. Construct safer buildings
                                          1. Improve prediction and monitoring systems
                                            1. Carry out land use zoning - the areas that are at most risk use for recreation and low-rise buildings.
                                              1. Provide aid and government support for reconstruction.
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