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What were the primary impacts of the Soufiere Hills volcano in Monsterrat?
1. 19 died 7 injured 2.Plymouth covered in 12m of mud and ash. 3. 20 villages destroyed by pyroclastic flow
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What were the secondary impacts of the Soufiere Hills volcano in Montserrat?
1. Population decine 8000 left since eruptions. 2. Volcanic ash improved soil fertility 3. Fires destroyed icluding government offices and the police headquarters
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What were the immediate responses of the Soufiere Hills volcano in Monsterrat?
1. UK provided £17m of emergency aid. 2. people evacuated south side of island. 3. temporary infrastructure built.
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What were the long-term responses of the Soufiere Hills volcano in Monsterrat?
1. UK has provided £41m develop north of island. 2. Risk map made and exclusion zone in place. 3. Monsterrat Volcano Observatory set up to predict volcanoes
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What are the global concequences of yellow stone supervolcano?
1. Ash settle over hundreds of square kilometres burrying fields and buildings. 2. Thick cloud of super-heated gas, everything within ten miles destroyed. 3. Ash will block out daylight over whole continents, trigger mini ice age
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What are the primary effects of the poor world earthquake in nepal?
1. 22 climbers on everest killed by avalanches. 2. 14 HEP stations damages. 3. 7000 schools destroyed
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What are the secondary effects of the poor world earthquake in nepal?
1. 23% shortage in energy supply. 2. poverty icreased because 30% of nations small industries destroyed 3. $600m loses over next 2 years.
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What are the immediate responses of the poor world earthquake in Nepal?
1. international appeal for Aid. 2. over 250000 ex- servicement recalled by government to help in response
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What are the long term responses of the poor world earthquake in nepal?
1. $10m needs to be spent on Build Back Better. 2. Government promote seismic research 3. recovery of historic buildings using specialist knowledge.
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What are the primary effects of the rich world earthquake in LA?
1. 33 dead. 2. 11 hospitals suffered structural damage and $20m damage 3. 11000 landslides
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What are the secondary effects of the rich world earthquake in LA?
1. Further 24 died due to injuries or stress related illnesses 2. 100 fires broke out 3. 30/80 mobile homes in Sylmar burned to ground after gas tanks exploded
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What are the immediate responses of the rich world earthquake in LA?
1. Earthquake monitored by seismic equipment 2. FEMA recued people 3. Hospitals evacuated
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What are the long term responses of the rich world earthquake in LA?
1. area declared disaster zone 2. loans, insurance and compensation paid for repairs. 3. FEMA and USGS investigated earthquakes and started 2 year plan.
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What are the affects of the Indian Ocean tsunami?
1. 230000 killed or missing. 2. 1.7 million lost their homes 3. 5-6m people needed emergency food, water and medical supplies
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What are the short-term responses of the Indian Ocean tsunami?
1. Hundreds of millions of pounds pledged by foreign governments. 2. foreign countries sent people and transport to recue people, clear up and distrubute water and food.
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What are the long-term responses of the Indian Ocean tsunami?
1. billions of pounds pedged to rebuild infrastructure 2. programmes set up to re-build houses. 3. tsunami warning system
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What are the economic impacts of Rutland Water?
1. boosts local economy- popular tourist attraction 2.6km2 of land was flooded to build- farmers lost livelihood.
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What are the social impacts of Rutland water?
1. recreational activities 2. jobs created to build and run 3. two villages demolished to build
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What are the environmental impacts of Rutland water?
1. it is an SSSI where wildlife is protected. 2. variety of habitats. 3. some habitats destroyed when flooded to build.
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What are the immediate effects of the rich world flood river Parret?
1. House flooded, damage to poperty 2. power supplies cut off. 3. buisnesses stopped -pubs
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What are the long-term effects of the rich world flood river Parret?
1. £1m lost to buisnesses. 2. Homelessness-moorland, cant return for year 3. cost farm industry £10m
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What are the short term responses of the rich world flood river Parret?
1. Sandbags 2. Police, fire service and army evacuation 3. RSPCA resuce animals
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What are the long term responses of the rich world flood river Parret?
1. £20m promised by goverment. 2. people had insurance protection. 3. community resilience plan- tailored to local needs
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What are the primary effects of the poor world flood river Indus?
1. 23% of crops destroyed 2. 1.9 million homes damaged 3. 1800 died
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What are the secondary effects of the poor world flood river indus?
1. floods encouraged mangrove swamps to grow back. 2. inflation exceeded 12%. 3. diesel and petrol washed into river
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What are the immediate responses of the poor world flood river indus?
1. £500 pledged in international aid. 2. NGOs such as oxfam provide clothing. 3. International red cross provides whole aid package to about 35,000 families
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What are the long-term responses of the poor world flood river Indus?
1. ordinary pakistanis assisting in reconstruction efforts. 2. NGOs such as Oxfam established "cash for work" programmes. 3. Pakistans national disaster management authorities implement reconstruction and recovery plan
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What are the causes of the Galtur avalanche?
1. Warmer weather followed by snow storm dumping 13ft of fine snow. 2. Strong winds in feburary. 3. large unstable slab of snow
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What are the impacts of the galtur avalanche?
1. 31 died 2. people stranded had to be air rescued. 3. 16 buildings destroyed
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What are the economic impacts of Chamonix, tourism on ice?
1. creates jobs- 2500 people work as seasonal workers every year. 2. Companies make lots of money, Compagnie du Mont Blanc has turnover of 50m euros
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What are the social impacts of Chamonix, tourism on ice?
1. Types of jobs changed from farm to tourism. 2. more deaths due to avalanches from ski slopes- in 1999 12 died.
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What are the environmental impacts of Chamonix, tourism on ice?
1. Large numbers of tourists cause traffic. 2. Huge amount of energy used to run ski lifts and snow making machines
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What were the secondary impacts of the Soufiere Hills volcano in Montserrat?

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