**Exercise: Classify the Event**

Choose from among the following list of typologies to classify the
events that are briefly described below. Think about the classifications
as an emergency manager might. Remember that what you call an event
greatly influences how you deal with it. Be prepared to justify your
decisions for the class.

+-----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------------+
| a               | e)           | g)  **D      | k)  **Attack**     |
| )  **Accident** | **Incident** | isturbance** |                    |
|                 |              |              | l)  **Disaster**   |
| b)  **Mishap**  | f)  **Soc    | h)  *        |                    |
|                 | io-Technical | *Emergency** | m)  **Tragedy**    |
| c)  **Event**   |              |              |                    |
|                 |    Failure** | i)           | n)  **Cata         |
| d)  **Hazard**  |              |   **Crisis** | strophe/Calamity** |
|                 |              |              |                    |
|                 |              | j)  **Act of |                    |
|                 |              |     God**    |                    |
+-----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| ***[Event]{.underline}***                                 | ***[Cla   |
|                                                           | ssificati |
|                                                           | on]{.unde |
|                                                           | rline}*** |
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| 1.  **Avalanche in Colorado** kills 4 skiers              | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 2.  **Bhopal**                                            | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 3.  **Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown**, 1975   | **\_\_\_  |
|     ("An electrician was checking for drafts by holding a | \_\_\_\_\ |
|     candle near suspect sites, when a draft caught the    | _\_\_\_** |
|     flame and ignited some flammable insulation. The fire |           |
|     spread rapidly through the cable systems, requiring   |           |
|     that both reactors be scrammed \[shut down\]. It      |           |
|     destroyed all five ECCS \[Emergency Core Cooling      |           |
|     Systems\] of one of the units, knocked out 15 percent |           |
|     of capacity of the TVA grid.")                        |           |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 4.  **Centennial Park bomb explosion,** Olympic Games,    | **\_\_\_  |
|     Atlanta, 1996, 1 dead                                 | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 5.  **Collapse of West Virginia's Silver Bridge** in      | **\_\_\_  |
|     1967, killing 46                                      | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 6.  **Droughts of 2002**                                  | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 7.  **Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire,** San Juan, PR, 1986, 96   | **\_\_\_  |
|     dead                                                  | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 8.  **Exxon Valdez,** 1989                                | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 9.  **Florida freeze** of December 1983\--\$2 billion     | **\_\_\_  |
|     losses for citrus industry                            | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 10. **Heat wave,** July 1995, 475 heat-related deaths in  | **\_\_\_  |
|     Chicago                                               | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 11. **Hurricane Andrew** and South Florida                | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 12. **Los Angeles/Rodney King Verdict Riots,** 1992       | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 13. **Love Canal**                                        | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 14. **Mobile Bay, Alabama Fog,** 1995, 100-car wreck, 1   | **\_\_\_  |
|     dead                                                  | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 15. **Mount Kilauea in Hawaii** begins spewing gasses and | **\_\_\_  |
|     lava in 1983, releasing average of 343 million cubic  | \_\_\_\_\ |
|     feet of lava per month but no deaths                  | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 16. **New York City Blackout** of 1977, 25 hours, \$345   | **\_\_\_  |
|     million in losses                                     | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 17. **NYC Snowstorm** of 1947, 26 inches in 18 hours, no  | **\_\_\_  |
|     deaths, \$1-7 million                                 | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 18. **9/11 (World Trade Center, Pentagon and              | **\_\_\_  |
|     Pennsylvania)**                                       | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 19. **Northridge Earthquake,** 1994                       | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 20. **O'Hare Airport crash of DC-10,** May 1975, 272      | **\_\_\_  |
|     deaths                                                | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 21. **Propane gas explosion,** Humberto Vidal building,   | **\_\_\_  |
|     San Juan, PR, 1996, 18 dead                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 22. **San Francisco Landslide** of January 1982, killing  | **\_\_\_  |
|     26                                                    | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 23. **Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion,** 1986          | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 24. **Taft Louisiana evacuation of 17,000 people,** 1982, | **\_\_\_  |
|     hazardous materials release                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 25. **Three Mile Island**                                 | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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| 26. **Tropical Storm Claudette,** 1979, Texas, no deaths, | **\_\_\_  |
|     \$600 million losses                                  | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| 27. **Washington, DC-area sniper shootings** of 2002      | **\_\_\_  |
|                                                           | \_\_\_\_\ |
|                                                           | _\_\_\_** |
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