Emergency Management Earthquake Emergency Management in Pakistan

        These emergency protocols usually start with planning before an emergency occurs. One commonly used emergency management protocol consists of four stages as shown in Figure 1.

Preparedness

Response

Recovery

Mitigation

Figure 1: Emergency Management Cycle (http://www.odpem.org.jm/DisastersDoHappen/DisasterManagementinJamaica/TheDisasterManagementProcess/tabid/240/Default.aspx)                                         

            Preparedness is the first step in the planning phase of the emergency management system. In this step, the agencies prepare themselves and make a strategy to respond to some incident or set of emergency situations. Ideally, it should include command and control. It also divides the tasks for agencies and removes the possible conflicts that can occur for example four different agencies all start to provide emergency shelter for the persons who become a victim of a disaster.

            When a plan has decided which agency will provide which services and what steps they should take to cater to the emergency. They execute that plan and may provide some response.

                After the response phase, agencies then take steps for recovery according to the type of incident, where they can provide medical treatment or financial support, or help the people to overcome from that incident.

                    Mitigation is the fourth and last phase of the emergency management cycle. It involves such steps that can ensure that the same incident cannot be possible again, otherwise, in mitigation new plans are suggested to avoid the maximum damage. Thus, it provides more precise and updated feedback to the preparedness, to deal with future emergencies more powerfully.

                        A natural disaster is an adverse event that occurs due to change in natural by its own without any human influence for examples floods, earthquake and tsunamis. A natural disaster can take a lot of lives and properties damage that can vary from one person to an entire region or cities or countries or maybe someday entire Earth might become prey of it. Regardless of the loss of life and property damage its severity also depends upon the ability to recover and on the available infrastructure (G, Bankoff, et al., 2003).