EADP 3035 Final Exam Question and answers correctly solved
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EADP 3035 Final Exam Question and answers correctly solved EADP 3035 Final Exam
The Hazard Mitigation Planning Process - correct answer Goal is to have a Mitigation Action Plan
Organizing Resources - correct answer 1. Single or multiple jurisdictional plan?
2. Stakeholder versus particip...
EADP 3035 Final Exam
The Hazard Mitigation Planning Process - correct answer ✔Goal is to have a
Mitigation Action Plan
Organizing Resources - correct answer ✔1. Single or multiple jurisdictional
plan?
2. Stakeholder versus participants?
3. Who is writing the plan?
Direct Representation Model - correct answer ✔1. Plan author
2. Planning Team: Direct & Representatives
3. Participants
Authorized Representative Model - correct answer ✔*Use with Caution!
1. Plan Author
2. Participants
How to Get Started? - correct answer ✔-Identify members of your Hazard
Mitigation Team (HMT).
-Identify team leader: Hazard Mitigation Coordinator (HMC).
-Define tasks and responsibilities of HMT and HMC.
-Outline the process.
-Get organized: How will you collect, access and store hazards data and
resources for plan?
-Document Everything! Why? Element A
,Risk - correct answer ✔The potential losses associated with a hazard,
defined in terms of expected probability and frequency, exposure and
consequences.
Steps in the Risk Assessment Process - correct answer ✔1. Identifying
Hazards
2. Profile Hazard Events
3. Inventory Assets and Population (Impact and Vulnerability Assessment)
4. Estimate Losses
5. Describe Land Uses and Development Trends
6. Form Conclusions (Determine Acceptability)
* ELEMENT B of the Local Mitigation Plan
Identifying Hazards (B1) - correct answer ✔-"What kind of hazards can affect
this community?"
-Only Natural Hazards
-Justify Any Omissions
Profiling Hazards (Element B1 and B2) - correct answer ✔-In profiling the
hazard, the plan author must explain how each hazard affects the community
by discussing:
1. Location affected by each hazard.
2. Extent of each hazard: How severe is it?
3. Previous hazard events in the community.
4. Probability of the hazard occurring again.
1. Location affected by each hazard - correct answer ✔-Clearly identify
which areas of the community are vulnerable to damage by each hazard.
, -Show locations using maps
1. Maps must be clear, accurate and readable.
2. Don't try to show too much on one map.
-Be sure to state when the entire planning area is affected equally by a
hazard.
2. Extent of Hazard Events - correct answer ✔-A hazard profile must explain
the extent of each hazard, meaning the anticipated severity and magnitude of
that hazard.
1.Magnitude- a measure of strength of an event
2.Intensity - a measure of the effects of a hazard in a particular place.
3. Create a Hazard History - correct answer ✔-Each hazard profile should
clearly explain previous occurrences of that hazard by jurisdiction.
-Should include - as complete as possible - dates of events, types of damages
incurred, and the duration of the event.
History Sources - correct answer ✔1. Research newspapers and other
historical records.
2. SHELDUS
3. National Climate Data Center
4. Prior Disaster Declarations for your area.
5. Data.gov
SHELDUS - correct answer ✔Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database
for the United States
NCDC (National Climate Data Center) - correct answer
✔-http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov
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