Example of Low Pressure hazard: tropical cyclone Pam
Case Study for GCSE Geography 'Weather and Climate'.
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- Created on: 07-04-21 18:37
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- Cyclone Pam
- Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts
- Winds destroyed hospitals and schools.
- Eleven people died
- 90,000 people were made homeless
- 80% of subsistence crops were flattened
- Subsistence:A farming system where farmers produce just enough to sustain themselves and their families
- Coastal areas were flooded by a storm surge: freshwater wells were contaminated by seawater
- Responses
- Foreign medical teams arrived; 19000 children were vaccinated against measles
- Repairs provided safe drinking water
- Blankets were distributed to the homeless to keep people warm
- 153 temporary schools were set up
- Emergency aid was sent by Australia, Fiji, France, New Zealand and the UK
- Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts
- Responses
- Foreign medical teams arrived; 19000 children were vaccinated against measles
- Repairs provided safe drinking water
- Blankets were distributed to the homeless to keep people warm
- 153 temporary schools were set up
- Emergency aid was sent by Australia, Fiji, France, New Zealand and the UK
- Tropical cyclone Pam hit the island chain of Vanuatu in the South Pacific in March 2015. Pam was a category 5 cyclone where wind speeds reached over 250km an hour
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