Tectonic Hazard
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- Tectonic Hazard
- Plate Margins
- Conservative
- Plates move alongside each other either in different directions or at different speeds.
- Destructive
- Plates moving toward each other. One plate is sub ducted (forced under another plate)
- Constructive
- Plates moving away from eachother
- Conservative
- Volcanoes
- Composite
- Steep sides, slower, sticky lava, violent eruptions
- Found at destructive plate margins
- Mount Rainer
- Shield
- Mauna Loa
- Found at constructive margins
- Gently sloping sides, runny lava
- Composite
- Earthquakes
- HIC case study: Kobe, Japan, January 17th 1995
- 6,434 people died, 40,000 seriously effected, 2 million homes without water and power for 10 days, $220 billion in damage costs
- Responses: Many jobs were created in the construction industry as part of the regeneration of Kobe. Many were evacuated and were given rations.
- LIC: Haiti Case Study, January 12th 2010
- 230,000 people died, 3 million affected, 250,000 homes destroyed, rubble blocked vital roads and paths.
- Responses: Many countries and aid agencies sent help, $330 million was sent from the EU, individuals tried to rescue people.
- HIC case study: Kobe, Japan, January 17th 1995
- Hazard risks
- LICS have less money and so there is a higher risk of death and damage
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- Plate Margins
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