Hazard Risk-use the basic skills of risk analysis to report the details and record the responses from officials responding to the incident.

Choose a natural disaster or technological hazard from the list below and use the basic skills of risk analysis to report the details and record the responses from officials responding to the incident.

• Storm surges
• Landslides
• Severe Winter Storms
• Droughts
• Extreme heat
• Avalanche
• Coastal Erosion
• Thunderstorm
• Hailstorms
• Snow Avalanches
• Land Subsidence
• Expansive Soils
• Dam Failures
• Hazardous materials
• Gas line or water main breaks
• Nuclear accidents

Briefly explain the natural disaster or technological hazard you have chosen. Choose an event in history that involved your chosen hazard or disaster. Report the details of the event and the responses taken by city, state and federal government officials.

Your paper must meet the following requirements:

• Your written paper should be 3-4 pages in length not counting the title and reference pages, which you must include.
• Use terms, evidence, and concepts from class readings.
• Cite at least three scholarly sources for this assignment. Scholarly resources include: peer-reviewed journal articles, books, the class textbook, or reports/documents from the government (.gov sites). A scholarly source does not include general sources from the internet (.com, .org, .edu, and .net sites are not scholarly). Scholarly resources should be current (no older than five years). If the class textbook is used as a source, then two other scholarly sources must be used.    
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• Your paper must be formatted according to APA guidelines