GLOSSARY OF TERMS.
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A DUST STORM: Is a common meteorological
AVALANCHE: Large mass of snow that slides
violently and crashing down the side of a
mountain, dragging everything in its path with
it.
AFTERSHOCK: Earthquake aftershock is
seismic movements that occur in the same
region where there was an earthquake or
tremor.
B release of energy accumulated over a long
BLIZZARD: It is a long-storm with very strong
winds and heavy snowfall.
BIOLOGICAL DISASTER: They are all those
that arise thanks to animal origin and that
somehow affect the environment and
humanity. The most important of the biological
disasters is the red tide. Other examples can
be: plagues, epidemics, infections, among
others
C due to torrential rains, thawing due to rising
CYCLONE: Extremely strong wind produced
by small and very abrupt atmospheric
depression that advances in large circles
turning on itself and that originates in tropical
areas.
CHILD PHENOMENON: Is a phenomenon or
event of climatic origin related to the warming
of the equatorial eastern pacific, which
manifests itself erratically cyclically.
D oceans. It is postulated that the temperature
DROUGHT: Lack of rains for a prolonged
period of time that produces dryness in the
fields and a shortage of water.
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phenomenon in the Sahara desert of northern
Africa, on the great plains of North America,
sand storms can reduce visibility to zero,
making it impossible to travel, and blow up the
upper layer of the soil depositing it on other
places.
E
EARTHQUAKE: An Earthquake is the sudden
movement of the earth, caused by the sudden
time.
ELECTRIC STORM: A electric storm is a
meteorological phenomenon characterized by
the presence of lightning and its sound effects
in the Earth´s atmosphere called thunder.
F
FLOODS: A flood is the occupation by the
water of areas that are usually free of it, due to
overflowing of rivers, streams or boulevards,
tides above the usual level, due to tidal waves,
hurricanes, among others.
FOREST FIRE: It is the fire spreads without
control in forest r wild terrain, affecting
vegetable fuels, flora and fauna.
G
GLOBAL WARMING: Global warming is an
increase, over time, in the average
temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and
has raised since the end of the 19th century
due to human activity, mainly due to the CO2
emissions that increased the greenhouse
effect.
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GREENHOUSE: It is an effect that occurs
because sunlight penetrates from outer space,
collides with the planet's surface, turns into
heat, and then is radiated back into outer
space. A part of the heat cannot escape
because it is reflected back to the earth by the
gases that produce the greenhouse
H K
HURRICANE: They are huge rotating tropical
storms characterized by powerful winds and
torrential rains. The stormy phenomenon
sometimes reaches 800 kilometers in
diameter and is made up of winds and clouds
that spiral around a common center called
"eye"
HAIL STORM: They are localized events that
typically happen in the spring or fall. Although
these storms typically don't do much damage,
when hail reaches a size of 1.5 inches it can
do a lot of damage to cars, glass, and external
walls
I M
ICE LOCK: Accumulation of ice in a certain
place, which in a river hinders the flow of
water.
IMPACT OF COSMIC ORIGIN: They are
caused by the collision of large meteoroids,
asteroids, and comets with Earth, and are
sometimes followed by mass extinctions.
J N
JOURNALIST: He is the person who is
professionally dedicated to journalism, in any
of its forms, whether in the written press, or in
photographic documentation, radio, television
or digital media. His job is to research and
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discover topics of public interest such as
natural phenomena
JOB: In sociology, execution of tasks that
involve physical and / or mental effort and that
aim at the production of goods and / or
services to meet human needs.
KILOMETERS: is a unit of length. it is the third
multiple of the meter, equivalent to 1000
meters. Used to measure the amount of
kilometers of damage occurred by a natural
disaster
L
LANDSLIDE: it is a type of landslide or
movement in mass of earth, caused by the
instability of a slope.
LIGHTNING: Vivid, momentary glow produced
by a collision between stormy clouds charged
with static electricity
METEORITE: it is a meteoroid that reaches
the surface of a planet because it does not
completely disintegrate in the atmosphere.
The brightness left to decay is called meteor.
MONITORING: Control the development of an
action or event through one or more monitors
NATURAL DISASTER: It is the consequence
of the effect of a natural phenomenon on
populations settled in risk areas that do not
have the necessary resources to respond to
major catastrophes, or at least to reduce their
damage.
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NATURAL PHENOMENON: It refers to a
global change that occurs in nature, that is,
that is not caused by human action.
O RICHTER- SCALE: also known as the local
OZONE CAPE: The area of the Earth's
stratosphere that contains a relatively high
concentration of ozone is called the ozone
layer or ozonosphere.
O.F.D.A: Office of Foreign Disaster
Assistance: It responds to all kinds of natural
disasters, including earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, cyclones, floods, droughts, fires,
and pests.
P SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE: It is a scale that
PREVENTION: Set of actions whose purpose
is to prevent or prevent natural events or
those generated by human activity, causing
disasters
PANDEMIC: Epidemic disease that spreads to
many countries or that attacks almost all the
individuals of a locality or region.
Q group of waves in a body of water of great
QUALIFIED SCIENTIST: He has all the
necessary requirements of authority, merit and
respect
QUARANTINE: In medicine, it is a term to
describe the isolation of people or animals
over a non-specific period of time as a method
of avoiding or limiting the risk of disease
spreading
R
RAIN STORM: It is a meteorological
phenomenon characterized by the close
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coexistence of two or more air masses of
different temperatures. This contrast
associated with the physical effects involved
leads to an instability characterized by rains.
magnitude scale, it is an arbitrary logarithmic
scale that assigns a number to quantify the
energy released by an earthquake, named
after the American seismologist Charles
Francis Richter
S
SEISMIC MOMENT: The seismic moment
represents the amount of energy released
during the event
classifies tropical cyclones according to the
intensity of the wind, developed in 1969 by the
civil engineer Herbert Saffir and the director of
the National Hurricane Center of the United
States, Robert "Bob" Simpson.
T
TSUNAMI: It is a complex event involving a
energy and of variable size that are produced
when a great mass of water is displaced
vertically by some extraordinary phenomenon,
for example, an earthquake, volcanic eruption,
underwater detonations , landslides, glacial
ice breaks, meteorite impact and other events.
TYPHOONS: A mass of clouds of small
diameter, with a fast rotary movement, that
descends from a cluster to the surface of the
sea, a lake or the earth.
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U WAVE: They are waves that move across the
UNISDR: The United Nations Office for
Disaster Risk Reduction was created in
December 1999. It succeeded the secretariat
of the International Decade for Natural
Disaster Reduction. UNISDR was established
to ensure the implementation of the
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
URGENCY: Urgency is called a situation that
requires immediate decision making in order
to avoid undesired effects
V Y
VOLCANIC ERUPTION: they are eruptions
that arise from the interactions between water
and magma. They are driven by the thermal
contraction of magma when it comes into
contact with water. This difference in
temperature between the two causes violent
water-lava interactions that make up the
eruption.
VULNERABILITY ZONE: All those that are
exposed to natural or anthropic events, which
can affect the various uses of the place. Also
a vulnerable zone can be if it is located in a
place of movement in the tectonic plates
W vertebrates) to humans, and vice versa.
WHIRLPOOL: it is a meteorological
phenomenon that consists of a vortex of wind
that presents a rapid rotational movement
around an axis that remains relatively stable.
Whirlwinds are formed when a difference in
speed between two regions arises in a moving
air mass generating turbulence
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surface of seas, oceans, rivers, lakes,
channels, etc.
X
X-RAY: electromagnetic radiation, invisible to
the human eye, capable of passing through
opaque bodies and printing photographic
films.
YEARS: refers to the orbital time of planet
Earth, that is, the time it takes for that planet
to make a full turn around the Sun. The term
year is also used to refer to the orbital period
of any planet and, by extension, applies to
other orbital cycles
YARDS (DESTROYED BY FIRE): it is the
basic unit of length in measurement systems
used in the United States and the United
Kingdom.
Z
ZOONOSIS: Any infectious disease that is
naturally transmitted from animals (mostly
ZONE: Each of the five parts in which the
Earth's surface is divided by the tropics and
popular circles