Deck 12: Mitigation Best Practices

Question 1

Insurance can play a role with both building codes and mitigation practices that private homeowners can take to reduce their vulnerability, insurance costs and damages.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following is one of the key phases in the earthquake management policies of Tokyo Gas Company?

A) prevention
B) emergency
C) restoration
D) all of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The goal of Philippines's Seismic Retrofit Program is to strengthen the public school buildings in the Metro Manila region to withstand earthquake as well as other natural hazards.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which strategy tactics were included in the Cedar Rapids River Corridor Redevelopment Plan?

A) Waste management
B) Flood management
C) Environmental management
D) None

Question 5

The world's deadliest cyclone occurred in Bangladesh in 1970 that killed about 300,000 to 500,000 people.

Question 6

Which of the following program was created in response to the tornado outbreak in April 27, 2011?

A) Seismic retrofit program
B) Multi-purpose cyclone shelter
C) Shelter Etowah
D) Animal protection

Question 7

Which of the following is a goal of the Maldives' Safe Island Programme (SIP)?

A) Protect the islands from natural and other hazards
B) Rebuild and improve existing infrastructure and economic facilities
C) Develop capacity to plan and implement risk reduction measures and build community resilience to disasters
D) All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is not one of the five priority areas of focus for Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP) in Canada?

A) Biodiversity
B) Aboriginal Communities
C) Coastal Communities
D) All of the above

Question 9

How many phases were required for the Cedar Rapids River Corridor Redevelopment Plan to be implemented?

A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five

Question 10

Chose the best answer to complete the following statement: Lee County created a joint planning effort in 2007 with its five municipalities as a model for _________ coordination

A) regional
B) local
C) national
D) None of the above

Question 11

Massachusetts does have state-level hazard planning requirements as well as county governments to create county hazard mitigation plans.

Question 12

Hurricane Ike is the third costliest hurricane in U.S. history.

Question 13

Protecting animals in disasters is a necessity in Australia as more than half of the Australians own pets.

Question 14

The 2011 Great Tōhoku Earthquake (9.0 magnitude) was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded on Earth.

Question 15

Cyclone shelters are wooden buildings where the ground floor is kept open for free flow of tidal surges.

Question 16

The Galveston County Daily News that suffered a direct hit from Hurricane Ike, is the oldest newspaper in Texas.

Question 17

Which of the following is a recommendation for business continuity by the Galveston County Daily News?

A) Have a strong, elevated building and protecting roofs, doors and windows
B) Have a written emergency plan and practice it.
C) Review technology needs and have redundant systems for data, communication and other vital needs.
D) All of the above

Question 18

Which of the following was one of the earliest communities in the United States to quantify and map flood elevations and floodplain boundaries based on "build-out land-use" conditions?

A) Berkley, California
B) Lee County, Florida
C) Bourne, Massachusetts
D) Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Question 19

Chose the best answer to complete the following statement: ________________ consists of more than 1000 small, low-lying coral reef islands encompassing an area of about 35,000 square miles (90,000 sq. kilometers).

A) Philippines
B) Hawaii
C) Maldives
D) Indonesia

Question 20

Chose the best answer to complete the following statement: The safety feature to elevate the house more than the required elevation, which provides added protection and results in lower flood insurance premiums, is known as ________________.

A) floodproofing
B) freeboard
C) retrofitting
D) None of the above