Restless earth case studies
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- Created on: 13-10-16 21:15
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- Restless earth.
- Earthquakes
- Haiti 2010
- Primary impacts
- 1 million people made homeless.
- 50,000 people died.
- Secondary impacts
- Looting and stealing
- Disease spread quick e.g cholera.
- 1 in 5 most their jobs
- Responses
- Long
- New school and home building program.
- Short
- 4 million given food rations
- Long
- Causes
- 7 on the richer scale.
- North America and Caribbean plate.
- Conservative plate boundary
- Shallow earthquake.
- Location
- Caribbean Sea.
- South-west of Cuba.
- Primary impacts
- loma prieta, 1989
- Secondary impacts
- The cypress street overpass collapsed 41 dead
- Gas mains, fires broke out
- Causes
- San Andreas fault line
- Pacific and North America plate.
- conservitive plate boundary.
- 6.9 on richer scale.
- Primary impacts
- 12,000 homeless.
- 63 deaths
- Management/prediction.
- Steel and concrete shock absorbers
- Untitled
- disaster plan in place
- Secondary impacts
- Haiti 2010
- volcanoes
- Sakurajima, Japan
- Managing the thret
- Protection
- Lava bomb shelters + concrete lahar channels.
- Prediction
- Tiltmeter - swelling magma chamber
- Evacuation
- Evacuation routes clearly labled.
- Protection
- Disadvantages
- Pyroclastic flows, lava bombs and ash destroy homes.
- 7000 live at base they vulnerable .
- Extra info
- Destructive plate boundary
- Composite/. stratovolcano
- Can erupt 200 times a year.
- Advantages
- Hot springs tourist attraction.
- 40% of land fertile grow tea or rice
- Managing the thret
- Mount nyragongo
- Aid and relief
- Short
- In sent 260 tones of food
- U.K. Tv appeal.
- Long
- Government s all over world gave $35 m
- Emergency measles injections from world health org.
- Short
- Location
- 15km north of city goma
- Is a strata volcano.
- Democratic republic of congo
- Impacts
- 12500 homes destroyed
- River of lava 100m wide
- Was predicted 400000 evacuated
- Aid and relief
- Sakurajima, Japan
- Tsunamis
- how are they formed
- Plates subduction and build pressure over time
- Ruptures in ocean floor result in displacement in water.
- When the small wave gets closer to shore friction builds wave slows but becomes bigger.
- Example
- Japan , March 2011
- Earthquake 9.0 richer scale
- Destructive plate margin
- 15000 dead and nuclear fallout.
- how are they formed
- Earthquakes
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