HAZARDS (volcanoes and earthquakes)
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- Created on: 28-01-17 12:56
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- HAZARDS
- Earthquakes
- Tsunami
- Large wave caused by the displacement of water from an eartquake
- Japan 2011
- 200,000 killed,
- nuclear contamination
- 100,000 sent to rescue people
- 6 million homes lost
- Liquefaction
- loose soil behaves like liquid in an earthquake
- Christchurch- 2011
- 100km of water pipes damaged
- 50% of city centre's buildings destroyed
- Landslides
- Kashmir 2005
- weakened ground, causing more landslides during monsoon season
- over 4 million homeless
- Kashmir 2005
- Tsunami
- Volcanoes
- Pyroclastic flows/ surges
- Destructive mass of hot ash
- Montserrat- 1995
- 19 people killed
- Island evacuated
- Lahars
- volcanic mudflow
- Montserrat- lahars destroyed large areas and covered the island in mud and ash
- CASE STUDY- KILAUEU
- shield volcano
- caused by an overheated area of the Earth's core
- continuously erupting since 1983
- erupted in March 2011 generating 2.5million cubic mets of lava/day
- shield volcano
- Pyroclastic flows/ surges
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