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Chapters 05
What is a natural hazard?
What are the major types of natural hazards?
Disaster potential, how to evaluate the natural hazards?
Use of history on disaster prediction
Chapter 06
What is an Earthquake?
Types of seismic waves and the characteristics, seismometer, seismogram vs. seismograph, Plate boundary earthquakes and intraplate earthquakes, types of earthquake scales.
Chapter 07
Tsunami, Environmental aspects related to the earthquakes and Tsunami. How to live with earthquakes and Tsunamis (regions at risks), How to minimize the Tsunami hazard?
Chapter 08
Volcanism. Types of volcanos, Types of lava, correlation between the Volcanism and the plate boundaries, volcanic landforms.
Chapter 09
Streams and rivers, River velocity, Discharge, Sediment erosion and deposition, Channel patterns (meandering vs. braided), capacity and competency, flood deposits, how to live with floods, How to control the floods?
Chapter 10
Mass wasting- what is a landslide?
What do you mean by safety factor?
What are the factors influencing the landslides?
What natural and human processes trigger the landslides?
Land subsidence and sinkholes, Land subsidence and mining. How landslide impacts the environment?