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Principles of Emergency Management

The relationship of the four phases of emergency management. At the top is Mitigation, an arrow goes to Preparedness, then an arrow to Response, then an arrow to Recovery, and then an arrow back to Mitigation in a circle. At the bottom it says The significance of the emergency management cycle is that all communities are in at least one phase of emergency management at any time.

Impact on Infrastructure

Four Pictures depicting impact on infrastructure. Picture (a) shouws a Heavy oil tank at a thermal power plant destroyed by the tsunami following the Tohoku earthquake in 2011 (Photo: A. Kouchiyama). Photo (b) shows a collapsed unit at a fertilizer facility after the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 (Photo: E. Krausmann). Photo (c) shows the dislodging of hydrocarbon storage tank and oil spills due to Hurricane Katrina storm surge in 2005 (Photo: B. McMillan, FEMA). Photo (d) shows burned jet fuel tanks after Supertyphoon Pongsona in 2002 (Photo: A. Booher, FEMA).