Restless Earth - Case studies

• March 2010 
• Ash cloud prevented flights
• Evacuation of 500 people 
• Electrical storms
• Monitored 
• considered dormant from August 2010

• 1995-1997 
• 16 deaths
• flights stopped preventing tourism
• farmland destroyed
• Monitored and evacuated

• 12th January 2010
• Magnitude of 7.0
• 270,000 deaths
• 300,000 injured 
• 1.3 million left homeless
  
• 8 hospitals collapsed
• Damage to port and roads
• Power cuts
• Looting
• Spread of diseases
• Total cost of $11.5 billion

• 17th October 1989
• Magnitude of 6.9
• 63 deaths
• 3,757 injured
• 12,000 homeless
• Liquification* - building collapsed
• Broken gas mains result in fires
• Roads damaged
• Total cost of $10 billion 

*The process at which soil is softened by water due to an earthquake, causing it to act like quicksand and for things to sink into it.

• 26th December 2004
• Earthquake on a destructive margin on the west coast of Indonisia (Magnitude of 9.1) caused 30-metre waves.
• Most countries bordering the Pacific Ocean were affected.
• 230,000 killed/missing
• 1.7 million homeless
• 5 - 6 million people needed emergency aid.
• Economic damage (e.g businesses destroyed) 
• Environmental damage
• 100's of millions of £'s pledged
• Food and medicines donated
• Disaster plans,warning systems and investments in infrastructure put into place