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Phases of Disaster

1. The document outlines 5 phases of disaster: pre-disaster, warning, social and physical impact, emergency, and recovery. 2. During pre-disaster, actions are taken to reduce potential losses through hazard assessment, adopting safety laws, and developing disaster plans. 3. The warning phase involves predicting disasters and notifying at-risk groups to prepare through education. 4. When disaster strikes (impact phase), there are physical and social consequences like casualties, damage, and long-term community problems. 5. The emergency phase focuses on isolation, rescue, and treatment to prevent further harm until threats decrease.

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Phases of Disaster

1. The document outlines 5 phases of disaster: pre-disaster, warning, social and physical impact, emergency, and recovery. 2. During pre-disaster, actions are taken to reduce potential losses through hazard assessment, adopting safety laws, and developing disaster plans. 3. The warning phase involves predicting disasters and notifying at-risk groups to prepare through education. 4. When disaster strikes (impact phase), there are physical and social consequences like casualties, damage, and long-term community problems. 5. The emergency phase focuses on isolation, rescue, and treatment to prevent further harm until threats decrease.

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Phases of Disaster:

1. Pre-Disaster
 Prior to a disaster strike, actions that can reduce the possibility of human,
material, or environmental losses caused by hazards must be done or performed.
These actions include geological hazard surveying and risk assessment
surveying, the adoption of laws and codes to prevent and mitigate disaster, and
the development, distribution, testing in mock disaster exercises, revision and
maintenance of an effective disaster plan.

2. Warning
 This is the period of time from the first possible danger signal to the moment of
impact. A warning is the message (using signs, words, sounds or images) that
announces an imminent danger.
 Disaster can be predicted using satellites and networks. Warnings enable at-risk
individuals, communities and organization to prepare and act appropriately and in
sufficient time to reduce harm or loss, or prevent a disaster. To be effective,
warnings must be related to mass education and training of the population who
know what actions they must take when warned.
 Moreover, during the phase of warning, there should be the activation of disaster
plan and establishment of emergency operation.

3. Social and Physical Impact


 Impact is the phase at which disaster actually strikes and essentially a period of
enduring the disaster’s effects and “holding on.”
 Disaster impacts comprise physical and social impact. The physical impacts of
disasters include casualties (deaths and injuries) and property damage, and both
vary substantially across hazard agents. The physical impacts of a disaster are
usually the most obvious, easily measured, and first reported by the news media.
 Social impacts, which include psychosocial, demographic, economic, and
political impacts, can develop over a long period of time and can be difficult to
assess when they occur. Despite the difficulty in measuring these social impacts,
it is nonetheless important to monitor them, and even to predict them if possible,
because they can cause significant problems for the long-term functioning of
specific types of households and businesses in an affected community.

4. Emergency
 This phase starts at the end of impact and continues until the immediate threat of
additional destruction has passed and the community is organized for recovery
and rehabilitation. During this phase, immediate actions must be done in order to
prevent further human, material or environmental losses.

 Isolation
 This is done to separate sick people who have or may have contagious
disease from those who are not sick in order to protect the public and to
prevent the transmission of infectious agents or the spread of disease.
 Rescue
 It is a responsive operation performed to save the lives of people by
bringing them out of danger, harm, or attacks.
 Remedy
 It is the provision of medicine or treatment to cure or relieve the injury and
illnesses of the people affected by the disaster.

5. Recovery
 The phase of recovery begins during the emergency phase and ends gradually
with the resumption of normal order and function.
 Recovery is the restoration of all aspects of the disaster’s impact on a
community, and the return of the local economy to some sense of normalcy.
Moreover, recovery is not only about the restoration of structures, systems and
services but it is also about addressing sources of inequitable and unjust
outcomes, and individuals and families being able to rebound from their losses
and sustain their physical, social, economic, mental, emotional and spiritual well-
being. The recovery phase seeks alignment with the principles of sustainable
development and removing needs by reducing risks and vulnerability.

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