GEOGRAPHY RESTLESS EARTH CASE STUDIES
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- Created on: 03-04-13 21:13
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- RESTLESS EARTH
- FOLD MOUNTAINS THE ALPS
- MINING
- Salt, iron ore, gold,silver and copper were mined in the Alps.
- This has declined due to the availablity of cheaper foriegn sources.
- FARMING
- The steep upland areas are used to farm goats whcih provide molk cheese and meat.
- Some sunnier slopes have been terraced to plant vineyards e.g. lavaux switzerland
- TOURISM
- 100 million tourists visit the Alps every year.
- 70% of tourists visit the mountains to ski.
- New villages have been built to cater for the influx of tourists.
- Ski lifts pepper the landscape.
- HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER
- The narrow valleys are dammed to generate HEP eg Berne in Switzerland.
- Switzerland gets 60% of its electricity from HEP stations in the Alps.
- The electricity produces is used locally to power homes and business.
- Alos exported to twons and cities futher away.
- FORESTRY
- Scots pine is planted all over the Alps becuase its more resiliant to the munching goats which kill native saplings.
- The trees are logged and sold to make thing such as furniture
- MINING
- VOLCANOES-MT ST HELENS
- CAUSES OF ERUPTION
- Tremors and movement for 3 months
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- Large mudslides from the melted glacier
- Pyroclastic flows at speeds of 100mph-700mph
- 57 died
- SECONDARY EFFECTS
- Loss of farm land
- Jobs lost for diggers
- Repairs needed for homes and bridges
- SHORT TERM RESPONSES
- Mobilising helicopters to rescue stranded survivors
- President Carter sent out 2 million masks due to a mask shortage
- LONG TERM RESPONSES
- 10 million trees replanted
- Johnstone observatory created to monitor volcanic activity
- CAUSES OF ERUPTION
- SUPER VOLCANOES- YELLOWSTONE
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- 10,000km3 of land erupted
- 25 mile high ash cloud
- Everything within a 100 mile radius of the eruption will be destroyed
- SECONDARY EFFECTS
- 2/3 USA uninhabitable
- European ice age
- World economy breakdwon due to USA
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- EARTHQUAKES
- POOR-PAKISTAN
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- 80,000 deaths
- Entire villages flattened
- SHORT TERM RESPONSES
- Help didnt arrive for weeks increasing casulties
- Helicopter from other countries helped
- SECONDARY EFFECTS
- landslides burried people.
- Winter conitions after the earthquake caused rescue to be interupted
- LONG TERM RESPONSES
- 40,000 were relocated to a new town from the destroyed area of Balakot
- New health centres were set up.
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- RICH-ITALY
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- 290 deaths
- A bridge near Fossa collapsed
- SECONDARY EFFECTS
- Broken waterpipe caused a landslide
- Aftershocks hampered rescue efforts.
- IMMEDIATE RESPONSES
- Camps set up
- Cranes removed rubble.
- LONG TERM RESPONSES
- Prime minister built new town to replace L'aquilla
- Investigation set up as to why the buldings didnt withstand the earthquake.
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- POOR-PAKISTAN
- TSUNAMI
- BOXING DAY TSUNAMI
- CAUSE
- 9.3 earthquake- indian ocean
- Planet moved half an inch
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- 200,000 dead
- Disease from the dead
- Millions homeless
- SECONDARY EFFECTS
- Crops cant grow due to soil being inundated
- Loss of tourism
- SHORT TERM RESPONSES
- Hundreds of millions of pounds were pledged to assist from foreign goverments
- Foreign countires sent ships to help .
- LONG TERM RESPONSES
- Tsunami warning system set up in Indian ocean
- Billions of pounds set up to rebuild its infrastructure
- CAUSE
- BOXING DAY TSUNAMI
- FOLD MOUNTAINS THE ALPS
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