Abstract
Floods are natural phenomena of geo-hazards that usually happened when experiencing prolonged heavy rainfalls. Floods in Malaysia can be categorized into monsoon floods and flash floods. Monsoon floods is caused of Northeast Monsoon season commences in early November and ends in March that brings heavy rainfall, particularly to the east coast states of Peninsular Malaysia and western Sarawak. Flash floods usually occur in areas with rapid development by a rapid rise in water level, high velocity, and large amounts of debris. Flooding that occurred in December 2014 can be classified as worst floods that affected several states in Peninsular Malaysia, and the worst affected is Kelantan state. This disaster was recorded more than 200,000 people were affected with 21 people were killed and gives a massive impact on people, properties, agriculture, livestock, and infrastructure facilities. Following the worst floods that hit Malaysia in 2014, the opinions and views from various parties such as subject matter experts was needed to produce mitigations and prevents of the flood disaster at once to minimize vulnerability to hazard.
Highlights
Geo-hazards are natural phenomena that typically triggering the natural disasters cause fatalities, damages, and severe impacts to social and economic
Hazards associated with flooding can be divided into primary hazards, secondary hazards and tertiary hazards or long term hazards [2]
The purpose of this paper is to briefly outline the flood scenario in Malaysia especially the flood disaster in 2014 is said to be the worst event ever experienced in Kelantan and Terengganu as well as its implications of the floods in aspect of social, economic and infrastructure
Summary
Geo-hazards are natural phenomena that typically triggering the natural disasters cause fatalities, damages, and severe impacts to social and economic. Hazard is an event or physical condition that has the potential to cause fatalities, injuries, property damage, agricultural loss, damage to environment, interruption of business, or other types of harm or loss [1] These natural disasters consist of landslide, earthquake, tsunami, flood and others. The purpose of this paper is to briefly outline the flood scenario in Malaysia especially the flood disaster in 2014 is said to be the worst event ever experienced in Kelantan and Terengganu as well as its implications of the floods in aspect of social, economic and infrastructure These issues followed by flood disaster managements to overcome the impacts of flooding with five activity areas, namely prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and governance
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