GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A number of factors, including poverty, lack of access to transportation, and crowded housing may weaken a community’s ability to prevent human suffering and financial loss in the event of disaster. These factors are known as social vulnerability.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social vulnerability is a measure of both the sensitivity of a population to natural hazards and its ability to respond to and recover from the impacts of hazards.

Detailed explanation-3: -People can be vulnerable if: They don’t understand the local hazards or the impacts they can have. They have no access to information about how to protect themselves or their property. They don’t have the resources they need to take action to protect themselves and their property.