Natural Disaster's Final

Disaster Summary

The Disaster Summary is to be turned in on (or just before) the last day of classes. This will be your final. The disaster summary should only consider natural disasters.

The Disaster Summary will consist of information, as outlined below, on the eight worst disasters that have occurred during the time period of the course. The worst disasters will be those with the greatest number of casualties and/or economic damage. It is possible that each person's list of the worst 8 disasters will differ as in some cases not enough information is available to determine the actual economic damage. In order to come up with the worst 8 each person will have to keep track of all disasters throughout the time period of the course, then determine which of the disasters are among the worst 8.

For any disaster that begins during the semester, but is not completely finished by the end of the semester, you should report as much information that is available up to the deadline.

The final disaster summary must be typed and should include the following information

Type of Disaster (i.e hurricane, earthquake, eruption, landslide, etc.)

Beginning date of the disaster

Location of the Disaster (some countries are large, so just reporting the country is not sufficient).

A description of the disaster and a detailed description as to the cause of the disaster

The total economic loss due to property damage, lost business, downtime, cleanup, and recovery etc., if available (in dollars). If a monetary figure is not available, provide information on such things as the number of structures destroyed, the number of people affected, the number of acres destroyed, number of livestock destroyed, etc

The total number of human casualties/injuries

Mitigation - A well thought out statement of what, if anything could have been done by humans to have prevented or reduced the economic damage and number of casualties for each disaster. This mitigation statement will be a significant part of your grade on this assignment.

Sources of information (APA 6th)

Although you may work with others on this log, the final work must be yours, in your own words. Thus, exact duplicates or logs that are copied word for word from another person will earn a zero.

The Disaster Summary must be in chronological order (earliest to latest) as near as is possible. Part of the grade will be based on the ease with which the instructor can read and grade the summary - appearance will count. I suggest a table format.

Disaster Summary Rubric (how you will be graded)

Category	2	1	0
Chronology	Is in chronological order from earliest to latest (less than one is out of order)	2 or more events are out of chronological order	No chronology
Organization/ Neatness	Typed, has easy to follow organization	Typed, no apparent organization	Not typed OR impossible to understand
For each disaster competed (should be eight total) – no credit will be given if disasters are fictional
Type of Disaster	Accurately names the type of disaster and any resulting disasters	Accurately names type of disaster, does not discuss resulting disasters	Does not name type of disaster, OR wrong disaster
Beginning date of the disaster		Accurate beginning date is given	No date OR wrong date given.
Location of the disaster	Pinpoints the location of the disaster and discusses the entire area it effects.	Location is vague OR entire area affected is not discussed	Wrong location OR too general OR not given
A description of the disaster	Detailed description of what happened	Description with few details	Does not describe
A detailed description as to the cause of the disaster	Detailed explanation that includes the type of disaster in general and this disaster specifically	Detailed explanation that includes the type of disaster in general OR this disaster specifically	Explanation is very basic
Total economic loss	Includes all available information on property damage, lost business, downtime, cleanup, & recovery costs	Includes the basics of economic loss, but does not include all available information	Does not list
Total human casualties	Includes numbers of injured and dead	Includes numbers of injured OR dead	Lists inaccurate (not up-to-date) numbers OR does not list
Mitigation	Statement of what was done and could have been done by humans to prevent or reduced the economic damage and casualties	Statement included, but does not specifically address mitigation of that disaster	No statement about mitigation
Sources of information	Includes all sources of information, correctly cited and alphabetized	Includes all sources of information, but are not alphabetized OR not correctly cited	Does not include all sources, or only partial sources

Final work appears to be that of the student, was not copied from any other student. Students will lose full credit for turning in exact duplicates.
Organization	Out of 4 points
Disaster 1	Out of 17 points	Disaster 5	Out of 17 points
Disaster 2	Out of 17 points	Disaster 6	Out of 17 points
Disaster 3	Out of 17 points	Disaster 7	Out of 17 points
Disaster 4	Out of 17 points	Disaster 8	Out of 17 points
		Student Grade	Out 174 points