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Disaster Management: Set – 5

  1. Most Tsunami’s occur in ?

(1) Mediterranean Sea

(2) Indian Ocean

(3) Atlantic Ocean

(4) Pacific Ocean

  1. Vice-Chairman of National Disaster Management Authority is ?

(1) C. Raj Narsimha

(2) N. Raghuveera Reddy

(3) N. Kiran Kumar Reddy

(4) M. Shahsidhar Reddy

  1. Author of the recently published book Natural Hazards and Disaster Management is ?

(1) Ranjan Basu

(2) Kalyan Sarkar

(3) Satyesh Chakraborthy

(4) Chandan Surabhi Das

  1. National Disaster Management Act created ?

(1) National Disaster Authority

(2) National Institute of Disaster Management

(3) National Disaster Response Force Authority

(4) All the above

  1. Movement Magnitude Scale replaced Richter Scale by Tom Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori in the year ?

(1) 1979

(2) 1978

(3) 1977

(4) 1976

  1. Which one of the following was a major earth tremor ?

(1) Chile, May 1960

(2) Alaska, May 1964

(3) Japan, March 2011

(4) All the above

  1. Who suffers maximum when drought comes ?

(1) Children

(2) Women

(3) Young men

(4) Old men

  1. The impact of disasters can be greatly reduced by ?

(1) Better planning

(2) Better preparedness awareness

(3) Better mitigation measures

(4) All the above

 

  1. What percent of Indian land is prone to floods ?

(1) About 22%

(2) About 20%

(3) About 18%

(4) About 12%

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  1. According to World Disasters Report of 2010, during 2000-09, 85% of affected people belonged to ?

(1) Asia Pacific Region

(2) North Asian Region

(3) South Asian Region

(4) West Asian Region

Answer

 

1) d

2) d

3) c

4) d

5) a

6) d

7) a

8) d

9) d

10) a

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