Exercise: Classify the Event



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Exercise: Classify the Event
Choose from among the following list of typologies to classify the events that are briefly described below. Think about the classifications as an emergency manager might. Remember that what you call an event greatly influences how you deal with it. Be prepared to justify your decisions for the class.


  1. Accident

  2. Mishap

  3. Event

  4. Hazard

  1. Incident

  2. Socio-Technical Failure

  1. Disturbance

  2. Emergency

  3. Crisis

  4. Act of God

  1. Attack

  2. Disaster

  3. Tragedy

  4. Catastrophe/Calamity



      Event

      Classification

    1. Avalanche in Colorado kills 4 skiers

      ___________

    1. Bhopal

      ___________

    1. Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown, 1975 (“An electrician was checking for drafts by holding a candle near suspect sites, when a draft caught the flame and ignited some flammable insulation. The fire spread rapidly through the cable systems, requiring that both reactors be scrammed [shut down]. It destroyed all five ECCS [Emergency Core Cooling Systems] of one of the units, knocked out 15 percent of capacity of the TVA grid.”)

      ___________

    1. Centennial Park bomb explosion, Olympic Games, Atlanta, 1996, 1 dead

      ___________

    1. Collapse of West Virginia’s Silver Bridge in 1967, killing 46

      ___________

    1. Droughts of 2002

      ___________

    1. Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire, San Juan, PR, 1986, 96 dead

      ___________

    1. Exxon Valdez, 1989

      ___________

    1. Florida freeze of December 1983--$2 billion losses for citrus industry

      ___________

    1. Heat wave, July 1995, 475 heat-related deaths in Chicago

      ___________

    1. Hurricane Andrew and South Florida

      ___________

    1. Los Angeles/Rodney King Verdict Riots, 1992

      ___________

    1. Love Canal

      ___________

    1. Mobile Bay, Alabama Fog, 1995, 100-car wreck, 1 dead

      ___________

    1. Mount Kilauea in Hawaii begins spewing gasses and lava in 1983, releasing average of 343 million cubic feet of lava per month but no deaths

      ___________

    1. New York City Blackout of 1977, 25 hours, $345 million in losses

      ___________

    1. NYC Snowstorm of 1947, 26 inches in 18 hours, no deaths, $1-7 million

      ___________

    1. 9/11 (World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania)

      ___________

    1. Northridge Earthquake, 1994

      ___________

    1. O’Hare Airport crash of DC-10, May 1975, 272 deaths

      ___________

    1. Propane gas explosion, Humberto Vidal building, San Juan, PR, 1996, 18 dead

      ___________

    1. San Francisco Landslide of January 1982, killing 26

      ___________

    1. Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion, 1986

      ___________

    1. Taft Louisiana evacuation of 17,000 people, 1982, hazardous materials release

      ___________

    1. Three Mile Island

      ___________

    1. Tropical Storm Claudette, 1979, Texas, no deaths, $600 million losses

      ___________

    1. Washington, DC-area sniper shootings of 2002

      ___________



Directory: hiedu -> docs -> hazdem
docs -> Principal hazards in the united states
hazdem -> 1 B. Wayne Blanchard, PhD, cem september 18, 2008 Part 1: Ranked approximately by Economic Loss
hazdem -> Session No. 8 Course Title: Theory, Principles and Fundamentals of Hazards, Disasters, and U. S. Emergency Management Session Title: Disaster As a growth Business Time: 3 Hours Objectives
hazdem -> 9. 1 To better understand the driving events, public pressures, and political and policy outcomes that have shaped emergency management in the United States
hazdem -> Disaster Studies Programs in North American Higher Education Historical Considerations
hazdem -> Session No. 3 Course Title: Theory, Principles and Fundamentals of Hazards, Disasters, and U. S. Emergency Management Session Title: Hazard Categories or Taxonomies Time: 1 Hour Objectives
hazdem -> Select list of u. S. Catastrophes waiting to happen b. Wayne Blanchard, Ph. D., Cem emergency Management Higher Education Project Manager Alphabetical Listing

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