Preparation for earthquakes and volcanoes
- Created by: Caitlinyx
- Created on: 28-04-13 15:08
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- Preparation for Volcanoes
- Spray the lava with water to cool it, causing it to solidify and stop the flow
- Put concrete/ rock barriers to divert the lava away from villages
- Mount Etna in Sicily uses these to protect villages such as Zafferana
- Spray the lava with water to cool it, causing it to solidify and stop the flow
- Mount Etna in Sicily uses these to protect villages such as Zafferana
- Set off explosions to divert flow
- Mount Etna in Sicily uses these to protect villages such as Zafferana
- Mount Etna in Sicily uses these to protect villages such as Zafferana
- Digging ditches to divert flows
- Create an exclusion zone
- Design buildings the shed ash
- Don't build homes in vunerable places
- Evacuate people
- Survival kit
- Preparation for Earthquakes
- Earthquake proof buildings
- LICs
- In Pakistan they build their homes with light weight timer frames so less people are killed by building collapsing
- Haiti tried building houses with small windows and light roofs
- HICs
- Transmerica pyrimid in San Fransico, wide base to make it more stable
- Rubbershock absorbers to absorb shock waves
- Interlocking steel frame to make the building stronger
- Automatic shutters to prevent pedestrians being covered in shattered glass
- Deep foundations
- LICs
- Earthquake drills
- Japan practice every year
- Survival kit
- Emergancy supplies - water tanks
- Earthquake proof buildings
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