Name: Disaster Readiness and Risk
Subject:
Grade/Section: Reduction
Subj. Teacher: Week: 2
WORKSHEET
Activity 1
Direction: Read the scenario below. Based on your understanding of disaster from the previous
module, enumerate or list down the risks that are reflected from the text.
Gina, an 18-year-old resident of Tacloban
City, just got laid off from her job as a sales
clerk in a medium-sized hardware store. She
and her siblings could barely survive each
day with their limited resources. Then
Typhoon Yolanda struck, it killed her 2
younger sisters. Their home was destroyed
by the storm surge. In her barangay alone,
2000 residents were killed, including her
childhood friends and former playmates.
Composite Art Background:
Medico International (2013) Taifun-Nothilfe
Philippinen 2013. Photograph.
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Identified Risks:
1. __________________________________ 4. __________________________________
2. __________________________________ 5. __________________________________
3. __________________________________
Activity 2. Identifying Risk Factors
Direction: Read the news article about an earthquake. After you have read the article, answer
the guide questions.
6.4-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Southern Philippines
MANILA • A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook the southern Philippines yesterday, sending
frightened residents fleeing from buildings, officials and eyewitnesses said.
The quake struck off the coast of the southern town of Manay at 3.16 pm at a depth of 14km, the
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said in a statement.
While there were no immediate reports of serious destruction, the institute said it expects the
earthquake to have caused some damage.
A lot of people ran from their homes because a lot of items were falling inside," The Philippine
Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) is a service institute of the Department of
Science and Technology (DOST) that is principally mandated to mitigate disasters that may arise from
volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunami and other related geotectonic phenomena. PHIVOLCS
science researcher John Deximo said.
The Philippines lies on the so-called Ring of Fire, a vast Pacific Ocean region where many
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
At least two people were killed and scores injured when a 6.5-magnitude quake struck the central
Philippines in July last year.
The most recent major quake to hit the Philippines was in 2013, when a 7.1-magnitude quake left
more than 220 people dead and destroyed historic churches in the central islands.
France-Presse, Agence, “6.4-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Southern Philippines”THE STRAIT
TIMES ASIA, 09 September 2018, SGT [Link]
earthquake-shakes-southern-philippines
Guide Questions:
1. What risk/s can you identify from the news article?
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2. What do you think are the factors that affect the disaster risks from the preceding article?
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Activity 3. Am I Ready
Direction: Suppose you are invited by the SK Chairman in your barangay as a resource speaker to
your fellow age group during an Environmental Awareness Activity and you were asked to give
emphasis on the risk factors underlying disasters so that young people will be equipped with
knowledge on how to mitigate the effects of a disaster. Have a concept in mind of how you are going
to deliver the information. Video yourself reciting the speech you want to deliver to the audience.
Upload your speech on our respective Group Chats. The given rubrics below will be used for scoring
Rubrics for creating a speech.
CONTENT The speech The speech is The speech is The speech is
adheres to the on topic but on topic and neither on topic
theme/topic the substance the substance nor has
is satisfactory. is fair. substance.
ORGANIZATIO The speech is Clear words Some pieces of Ideas and
N OF very well are used information are pieces of
THOUGHTS organized and not clear and information
informative hard to follow. seem to be
randomly
arranged and
improvement is
needed.
Activity 4. Fill Me!
Direction: Supply the missing letters to complete the word/s that described the various effects of
disaster. Statements are provided as clues.
1. The elements at risk from a natural or man-made hazard event.
_X__S__E
2. These are processes or conditions, often development-related, that influence the level of disaster
risk by increasing levels of exposure and vulnerability or reducing capacity.\
D_S___E_ R___
3. The conditions determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes,
which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazard.
_U_N__A__L__Y
4. Damage to both public and private infrastructures
I_F__S_R__T_R_ D__A_E
5. Many people must abandon their homes and seek shelter in other regions which may cause large
influx of refugees that disrupt accessibility of health care and education, as well as food supplies and
clean water
P__E_T__L D_S__A__M_N_
