Key terms hazards

Ash

Aseismic building
design
Asthenosphere

Benioff zone

Collision plate margin

Convergent plate
margin
Composite cone volcano

Community adaptation

Community
preparedness
Conservative plate
margin
Constructive plate
margin
Crustal fracturing

Destructive plate
margin
Divergent plate margin

Disaster

Earthquake seismic
waves
Elastic energy

epicentre

Focal depth

hazard

Hazard management
cycle
Hazard profile

Hot spot volcano

Hydro-meteorological
hazards
Hypo centre /focus

Intensity
Intraplate

Jokulhlaups

Lahar

Land use zoning

Landslide

Lava flow

Liquefaction

lithosphere

Locked fault

Love waves

Magnitude

Mantle convection

Mantle plumes

Mega disaster

Mercalli scale

Mitigation

Modify loss

Modify the event

Modify vulnerability

Moment magnitude
scale
Multiple hazard zone

Natural hazard

P waves

Paleomagnetism

Park Hazard response

curve
Pressure and release
model
Pyroclastic flow
Rapid onset

Resilience

Risk

S waves

Sea floor spreading

Slab pull

Slow onset

Speed of onset

Subduction

Transform margin

Tectonic strain

Tsunami

Volcanic Explosivity
Index
Vulnerability

Water column
displacement