Phillipines Catastrophes Aaron Flores

Week 2 is about the different plate boundaries and how close our countries are to them . Plate tectonics are the reason why the several most devastating natural hazards occur.  The three different kind of boundaries are divergent, transform, and convergent.  Divergent is where the plates move away from each other, transform is when they move past each other, and convergent is when they move toward one another.  Earthquakes and volcanoes happen at divergent, earthquakes happen at transform, and subduction zones along with volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides happen at convergent  boundaries.   The Philippine sea plate is unusual, because almost all the boundaries are convergent.  The Pacific plate is subducting beneath the Philippine Sea plate to the east while the northwestern part of the Philippine Sea plate is subducting beneath the Eurasian plate.  There are also transform boundaries near the Ta...

   Aaron Flores Hazards, disasters, and catastrophes are not what you want to see on your local news channel.  They are all potential threats to the community/world, but differentiate from each other in levels of danger. A hazard is a potential process or event that is a threat to human life and property.  Some examples include earthquakes and volcanoes.  An event only becomes a hazard when human life is in the way.  A disaster is a hazardous event that is far more dangerous.  An event is considered a disaster when more than 10 people are killed, more than 100 people are affected, and when it is a declared state of emergency.  Lastly, the most dangerous of the three, a catastrophe requires a significant amount of money to fix and many years for recovery.  One example of a Catastrophe was Hurricane Katrina, which cost 100 billion dollars and is considered the largest catastrophe in the U.S.  Therefore, hazards, disasters, and catastrop...