California Compulsory Case Study
- Created by: Hayley Petts
- Created on: 08-01-13 14:42
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- California-Multiple Hazard Hotspot
- Vulnerability
- 20% below poverty line
- 70% live within 50km of fault line
- 8th highest GDP
- $1.8 trillion
- buildings on coast or unstable land
- in denial about hazard risk
- Capacity To Cope
- Recovery + Reconstruction plan
- early 1990's
- 1993 Short Term Earthquake Response Plan
- unstable buildings or infrastructure are demolished or re-enforced
- 1980 - 100 freeway overpasses were re-enforced
- Seismic Risk Maps
- informed local government and state preparedness and response plans
- 1978's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Earthquake Prediction
- Developed prediction and response plan
- Recovery + Reconstruction plan
- Hazards
- Earthquakes
- Conservative plate boundary
- North American Plate + Pacific Plate
- San Andreas Fault
- Loma Prieta
- 7.1 magnitude
- 1018 homes destroyed
- 366 businesses destroyed
- 1989 dead
- 13,757 injured
- Conservative plate boundary
- Volcanoes
- Destructive Plate Boundary
- none since 1915 - Lassen Peak
- Landslides
- Seismic Activity
- unstable steep land
- 3-5 jan 1982 - San Francisco Bay Area
- $66 damages
- killed 25
- Drought
- La Nina
- anti-cyclones
- increased wind blowing west from desert areas
- dry air has no moisture
- Wildfires Oct 2007
- killed 22
- destroyed 1300 homes
- Smog
- highly urbanised (40 million people
- dry descending air from mountain ttraps vehicle emissions
- Pollution Plume
- Can cause Asthma, respiratory problmems
- can cause premature deaths
- Earthquakes
- Vulnerability
- San Andreas Fault
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