Tectonic Events Management
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- Created on: 23-01-17 18:04
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- Tectonic Events- Management
- Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004
- Social:
- 230,000 dead
- 1.7 million homeless
- 5-6 million in need of emergency aid
- disease caused by contaminated water supplies
- 1,500 villages destroyed in Sumatra
- Economic:
- crops destroyed
- farmland damaged
- ports ruined
- cost of reconstruction-$10 billion
- Drop in tourism
- Communicati-ons damaged
- Environmental
- 8 million liters of oil escaped Indonesian oil plants
- coastal mangrove forests were damaged
- arable land destroyed by salt
- Social:
- Tohuke, Japan Tsunami 2011
- Social
- 15,480 dead
- mass homelessness
- Disease caused by radioactive nuclear spillage
- Economic
- $300 billion clear-up
- farmland damaged
- Loss of 44 nuclear power stations due to public concern
- Damage to nuclear power plant
- Environmental
- nuclear contamination of water supplies
- damaged crops
- food supplies contaminated
- salt water inundation of land
- Social
- Management
- Volcanoes
- Volcano shelters
- Education
- Lahar channels
- Development of emergency services, transport and communicati-ons
- Seismometers in the earth
- Preliminary earthquakes
- Study of the magma chambers through P waves and S waves
- Evacuation practices
- Tsunamis
- DART early warning systems
- Improvement of emergency services, transport and communicati-ons
- Evacuation proceedures
- Sea defences eg. sea wall
- Earthquakes
- Richter and Mercalli Scale,
- Education
- Shock-proof buildings eg. Japanese pendulum design
- Structural improvement
- Development of emergency services, communicati-ons and transport
- Volcanoes
- Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004
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