Emergency in Earthquake Emergency Management in Pakistan

            An emergency is a sudden or unexpected situation that creates injury, loss of life, damage to the property, or environment. Most of the emergencies need urgent safety assistance and support to prevent a more severe situation that might result in a big loss.

Types of emergencies

Emergencies can be categorized in the following types

1. Dangers to life

2. Dangers to health

3. Dangers to the environment

 Dangers to life in Earthquake Emergency Management in Pakistan

            This type of emergency causes an instant risk to the life of living beings that become a victim of it. Since this type of emergency is related to life so it ranges from a single human being to infinite humans. For a single person, this emergency can be a medical emergency like strokes, trauma or heart attack. For a large number of people, this emergency can be in the form of a natural disaster such as flood or earthquake or it can a disease that affect multiple people like malaria or cholera.

Dangers to health the Earthquake Emergency Management in Pakistan

            Some emergencies do not instantly lead to the risk of losing a life, but it might leave serious consequences for the future health of affected persons. In this type of emergency, the range of affected persons is way more than dangers to life emergency type. A broken limb is an example of danger to health emergency type because it does not usually take life, but an instant cure is mandatory for proper recovery. (Pascapurnama, Murakami and Yasutan)

Dangers to the environment Earthquake Emergency Management in Pakistan

            Some emergencies do not directly cause any damage or risk to the people life, health or property, but it affects the atmosphere or natural environment. With the passage of time, it leaves a great impact on human life. Its examples could be pollution and marine oil leakage.

References of Earthquake Emergency Management in Pakistan

        Pascapurnama, Dyshelly Nurkartika, et al. "Integrated health education in disaster risk reduction: Lesson learned from disease outbreak following natural disasters in Indonesia." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2018): 94-102.