Multi-hazardous environment
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- Created on: 07-01-18 13:43
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The Philippines:
Location: the Philippines, south east Asia.
Vulnerability: variety of hazards.
Volcanoes: destructive plate margin; Philippine plate was subducted under Eurasian plate.
Volcanic eruption: Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991. 700 people died; 200,000 left homeless; buildings collapsed; crops were destroyed; damaged agricultural land from ash.
Seismic hazards: earthquakes occur along the plate margin and at fault lines where the plate has cracked under pressure.
Earthquake: Luzon Island in 1990 with a magnitude of…
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