Geography Case Study Earthquakes
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- Case Study Earthquakes
- Haiti
- LEDC, North American and the Carrabin Plate on a conservative plate margin
- 200,000 people died
- 1.5 million people homeless
- Epicentre was 25 Km from the Capital Pourt-au-Prince
- 3.5 million people lived in a danger zone
- 250,000 building collapsed
- 4,000 prisoners escaped
- Both the port and the airport were destroyed inhibiting aid
- Aid took 5 days to get in
- 2 million people were squatters in raining season
- Ocured on January 12th 2010
- American Red Cross raised 7 million in 24 hours
- 7 on the Richter Scale
- Loma Pietà
- Ocured on the 17th of Octobre 1989
- 6.9 on the Richter Scale
- 63 people died
- Due to massive baseball game 63,000 people attended and survived reducing the death tole
- Liquifaction in the outer bay 60m from the epicentre
- 12000 homes were destroyed
- $1.8Bn damage to the transport system
- $30Mn damage to the Airport
- Freeway took 11 years to re-build
- Indonesia
- 26th of December 2004
- 250,000 died
- 200,000 homless
- 13 countries effected
- 9.1 on the Richter Scale
- Hawii New 1 hour later due to the warning systems in the Pacific OCean
- After the event warning systems put in the Indian ocean
- Tourism dropped by 80%
- $4.5Bn worth of damage
- 1500 villages destroyed
- 42 reconstruction projects still in place 12 years on
- Wave Types
- Shock waves. Are the first waves felt and are the quickest. Highest to the closest to the focus
- P waves are the fastest and go through solids and liquids
- S waves are slower and go side to side, don't go through liquids but are more dangerous than p waves
- Surface waves are the slowest, most destructive and move both side to side and up and down and is the final wave felt.
- Haiti
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