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Assignment on Leadership in Disaster Management

   

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Running head: LEADERSHIP IN DISASTER MANAGEMENTLeadership in Disaster ManagementName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1LEADERSHIP IN DISASTER MANAGEMENTDescribe the background of earthquake, context of the event and identify its impact On September, 2017 there was a massive earthquake which struck in Mexico. Theearthquake was very powerful and it killed many people and even destructed and collapsed thebuilding. The epicenter which was measured was 7.1 magnitudes. Wednesday, the earthquaketook place. The devastating earthquake killed many in Mexico City in 2017.The tectonic plates which was along the North American continent. Mexico is theWorld’s most seismically active region, which have several tectonic plates along with the coastof Mexico. The activities along the coast of the Caribbean plates also generate seismic events.The city of Mexico is made up of soft soil and clay which increases the destruction theearthquake causes. This will increase the shockwave amplitude and cause violent shaking.Deeper and denser soil layers increase amplified shockwaves, more will be the destruction. Theearth quake which struck the region killed almost many people (Witze,2017).The earthquake on 19th September killed almost 10000 people and devastated the wholeland. Every year the national earthquake, drill is conducted by the Government through thepublic loudspeakers in the Mexico City. Thus this is one of the devastating earthquakes in theCity of Mexico. The earth quake reported that there was strong shaking for about one minute andthe alarm and the cell phone alerted before the earthquake started (Wade, 2017).

2LEADERSHIP IN DISASTER MANAGEMENTBriefly evaluate the management of the event and its significance in human, social, politicaland economic termsSignificance on Human AspectThere was many debris and collapses in the city of Mexico. During this event of disasterthere were many rescuers such as the soldiers, the college students and the rescuers who wereworking to help to rescue the people who were trapped in this disaster. There were huge piles ofrubble and many other buildings which were also destroyed. There was much debris which wasspread throughout. There was damage of the church killing almost fifteen people. The rescuerscontinued to help the people who were trapped in the earthquake. The crews heard that thevictims were calling out for help. About 32 building collapsed and 52 people were rescued alive,most of the people feared that they will be trapped inside the debris (Blaikie et al., 2014).Significance on Social AspectMexico is a very congested city, it is busy throughout but after such disaster the city wasshattered, there were thousands of people who screamed across the roads. They were runningaway from the building so as to save them (Gulati, 2017). The public transport was temporarilyshut down. There was power cut almost throughout the day. The earthquake having epicenter was located in 12kms from the Mexico City. Theearthquake was strong. There was huge damage to the human, social and economic and politicalenvironment of the Country. Around forty four building collapsed in the city of Mexico, ittrapped many people under the dust which caused economic and social loss and damage to the

3LEADERSHIP IN DISASTER MANAGEMENTenvironment. In that particular day, the stock price in the Mexico Stock Exchange also declined(Lomnitz, 2017).Significance on Economic AspectThe environmental aspects impact the disaster which demonstrates between socialeconomic and environment aspect of sustainability. The management shall devise a plan whichwill help in preventing the disaster. It is a fundamental effort in reducing the vulnerability so asto systematically tackle the complex interaction between economic, environmental and socialfactors after the earthquake (Rodríguez-Pascua et al., 2017).Earthquake is not under the humancontrol to measure its effect and to eliminate the natural disaster occurring from it.It is importantto identifying the environmental aspects and the impacts that it is fundamental in the managingrisks, and this should be the first step in a risk management (He & Heki, 2017).Significance to Political AspectThe chaos which is created by the earthquakes and the natural disaster created criticismfor those government performances that had to response in case of such a disaster in the Country.Response from the National emergency center for natural calamity came too late. A professor ofthe business school in the Adolfo Ibáñez University said that “The way the crisis was managedwas worse than what we should have anticipated.”Even though no country is prepared to deal with the earthquake which was as high aseight in magnitude, one of the mistakes done by the Chile is that they were not prepared for suchan enormous destruction that that an earthquake can bring and destroy the land (Prasad, 2017).

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