... lasts, the more likely it is that the victims will be exposed to threat or harm and therefore the more effects and human responses the event will produce. Within technological disasters and a few natural disasters (such as earthquakes) they usually have no obvious low point, meaning that we cannot be sure when the worst point is reached and when things are likely to start getting better, for example, in an earthquake each aftershock may produce more feelings of fear, upset and apprehension about future events. Also, within technological disasters they are artificially caused and not the product of naturally occurring forces. As technological disasters are man made this helps to diffuse anger as people find a scapegoat. It has also been found that this process of scapegoating can also sometimes prevent us from finding the real cause of the disaster by focusing on our personalities rather than the causes, which ...

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