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Cholera: An infectious and often fatal bacterial Disaster-prone: A place, area or entity, more likely to
disease of the small intestine, typically contracted suff er another disaster in the future
from infected water supplies and causing severe Displacement: The enforced departure of people from
vomiting and diarrhoea their homes, typically because of war, persecution, or
Collision: An instance of one moving object or person natural disaster
striking violently against another Dizziness: A sensation of spinning around and losing
Combustible: Able to catch fi re and burn easily one’s balance
Community kitchen: A collectively owned kitchen
Dusting airplane: An aircraft used for dusting or
run by civil society organisations, the government
spraying large acreages with pesticides
and people themselves to provide good meals to the
displaced, hungry and underprivileged people E
Congenital: A disease or physical abnormality present Ecosystem: A biological community of interacting
from birth organisms and their physical environment
Control room: A room serving as a central space
El Nino: An irregularly occurring and complex series
where a large physical facility or physically dispersed
of climatic changes aff ecting the equatorial Pacifi c
service can be monitored and controlled from region characterized by the appearance of unusually
Corrosive: Tending to cause corrosion warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and
Crippled: A person unable to walk or move properly Ecuador, typically in late December whose eff ects
Cyclone: A system of winds rotating inwards to an area of El Niño include reversal of wind patterns across
of low barometric pressure, with an anticlockwise the Pacifi c, drought in the South Asian and Australia
(in the northern hemisphere) or clockwise (in the regions, and unseasonal heavy rain in South America
southern hemisphere) circulation
Emergency shelter: A place for people to live
D temporarily when they cannot live in their previous
residence
Dam burst: A catastrophic type of failure characterized
Emotional toll: The negative mental and psychological
by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of
costs felt after a tragic, traumatic event or a disaster
impounded water
Epicentre: The point on the earth’s surface vertically
Debris: Scattered pieces of rubbish or remains
above the focus of an earthquake
Decontamination: The neutralization or removal of
Evacuation: The action of evacuating a person or a
dangerous substances, radioactivity, or germs from
place
an area, object, or person
Extinction: The state or process of being or becoming
Deformation: The result of a distorting process
extinct
Deployment: The action of bringing resources into
eff ective action Eye of the storm: The calm region at the centre of a
storm or hurricane
Depression: A mood disorder that causes a persistent
feeling of sadness and loss of interest and can F
interfere with your daily functioning
Fire alarm: A device making a loud noise that gives
Disaster management: The organization and
warning of a fi re
management of resources and responsibilities for
dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies, Flammable material: Combustible materials that can
in particular, preparedness, response and recovery in be easily ignited at ambient temperatures
order to lessen the impact of disasters Forest fi re: A large, destructive fi re that spreads over a
Disaster resistant: Structures designed to prevent forest or area of woodland
total collapse, preserve life, and minimize damage in Foundation: The lowest load-bearing part of a
case of an earthquake or tremor building on which the building stands
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