goeg- unit 1 phillipines
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- Created on: 19-04-15 10:04
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CASE STUDYS- Hazard Hotspots
Phillipines (middle income country)
CAUSES:
Physical factors;
- Topograpgy is mountanous, leading to landlides. Coastal low lands, area is suceptable to floods
- Sit on a destructive plate boundray where the Eurasian plate is subducted benaeth the Phillipines plate- leads to melting of Eurasian (oceanic) plate, causing maga to rise and volcanic eruptions.
- Sits on the S.E Aian typhoon belt, leads to storm surges and floods
- Heavy rainfall on mounrainous areas leads to flash floods
Human factors;
- Deforestation for farming on steep hills can lead to flash floods (during heavy rainfall)
- Increase…
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