TECTONICS - impacts of disasters
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- Created on: 26-04-18 13:44
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- Impacts of tectonic hazards
- Social
- Deaths, injury and wider health impacts including psychological harm.
- Environmental
- Damage, disruption or destruction of physical systems (ecosystems).
- Economic
- loss of property, business, infrastructure and opportunity
- The impact of a disaster differs between countries with different levels of development (comparing with Tsunami's):
- 2011 Tohoku, Japan. Magnitude = 9.0. 9.3m Tsunami height. 16,000 deaths and 6000 injured. US$300 billion in economic losses.
- 2004 Indian Ocean. Magnitude = 9.2. 24m tsunami height. 230,000 deaths and 125,000 injured. US$15 billion in economic losses.
- 2011 Tohoku, Japan. Magnitude = 9.0. 9.3m Tsunami height. 16,000 deaths and 6000 injured. US$300 billion in economic losses.
- A megadisaster is a disaster with unusually high impacts. millions of people affected and billions of dollars in damage over an entire region or more than one country.
- Social
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