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Disaster Management: In-Depth Analysis & Role of IT Technologies On card with Despicable Disaster A disaster is any sudden serious calamity or disruption, which may be relatively short or may even last for months. Precisely, a disaster may be termed as an event which may occur anonymously at any time whose consequences are destructive and life-taking. In layman’s words, we can term disaster as a sudden unfortunate event which causes a great threat to everyone and anything.
What are the forms of disaster? A disaster may include any natural or man-made calamity such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, tsunamis, droughts, floods, cyclones, landslides, wildfires, nuclear reactions, radiation blizzards etc. which have social and biological negative effects on our ecosystem.
How can the disasters be managed, if not avoided? Through mitigation techniques which includes activity that reduces the chance of disaster or may reduce the disastrous effect of the unavoidable disasters. Through proper planning and confirming how prepared are we for the disasters, to get adequate response and fast rescue service operations. Checking any approaching threat. Warning the people who are most likely to get affected. How fast we respond to any disasters which take place and how precisely we take actions plans which can save lives and the damage to the properties. Educating the people about disaster preparedness. Collecting the food supplies, med care, and relief resources. We should be ready for any damage which happens through disasters and how fast we recover from that. It is the most important phase after a disaster and we must know how should we recover from that and start everything again without many dilemmas to normalcy again.
Which areas are more disaster-prone and most suffered? Those areas which lie near the sea shore are very much prone to calamities like floods and Tsunamis. Those areas which lie in the tropical and sub-tropical areas which have a low-pressure center, rain, and strong winds are more prone to hurricanes and cyclones. Those areas which lie along the continental plates and edge of oceanic plates are more prone to Tsunamis, hurricanes, flash-floods and water submerging. Nuclear and radiation accidents or incidents may occur due to poor judgment or wrong information in the areas which have nuclear reactors. Mostly, disasters happen everywhere but the most suffered areas are usually those which are poor and socially impaired basically the under-developed and developing countries.
How can Technology help in determining disaster? Technology now have certainly advanced a lot and brought us new tools through which we can make urgent communications which are helping gracefully in emergency efforts and making the efforts more accessible and effective to all the public and private disaster management to carry out proper and agile med care to the victims and taking them back to the safe zone. How does IT help in the case of disaster?