Simultaneous or concurrent environmental hazards are far from rare. The 1923 ear
Simultaneous or concurrent environmental hazards are far from rare. The 1923 earthquake, which hit Tokyo and Yokohama, led to an inferno fanned (rather than extinguished) by a typhoon, with over 100,000 dead. One of the largest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991
coincided with the landfall of a major typhoon. When it comes to concurrent disasters, social scientists are only beginning to explore the cumulative effect of multi-hazard exposure, and few have explored the social effects of multiple hazards layered onto one another (Laska et al. 2015, Lindell and Hwang, 2008; Mohammad and Peek, 2019 are notable exceptions). For this project, you will have to research simultaneous or concurrent environmental hazards. You should focus on the occurrence of events that happened simultaneously with COVID – 19. Make sure you find at least six events happened in the USA
or elsewhere. Once you have found the six events do the following in your group:
1. Define what concurrent or multiple disasters are.
2. Write a summary of each event.
3. Discuss the challenges encountered during these events. For instance, did everything go as
planned?
4. If you cannot find any descriiption of the challenges, what are the issues that may have occurred based on the characteristics of the hazards?
5. What lessons can be learned by comparing all these events? Prepare a table to compare all the events and lesson learned and describe it in your essay.
6. Write a minimum 8-page long essay, double space, font 12, where you answer the above
questions.
7. Prepare and upload on Blackboard a 10 minute slide presentation (this can be done within
Powerpoint How to make a narrated PowerPoint video! – YouTube) where you discuss your paper.
