tectonics case studies!!
- Created by: helenalr
- Created on: 02-06-22 11:54
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- tectonic case studies
- Haiti EQ 2010
- only 2.5% was insured, losses were greater than the GDP
- corruption in the government
- built presidentialpalace
- has never fully recovered
- dependent on long-term aid
- avg age is 24
- mag 7.0 and shallow focus near Port-au-Prince
- slum housing
- cholera outbreak - 10,000 deaths
- used crisis mapping - public reported damage
- Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004
- estimated 200,000 deaths in a dozen different countries
- Sumatra
- 170,000 deaths
- 665,000 homeless
- topography(gradient and depth) made waves bigger
- lack of warning systems and education
- Christchurch EQ 2011
- liquefaction
- 80% of buildings in CBD damaged or demolished
- $16bn danage but 80% was insured
- weren't aware of fault line
- liquefaction
- Tohoku EQ and tsunami 2011
- Japan = developed country
- ageing pop - 28.4% over 65
- good warning systems - detcted EQ 1 min in advance
- lots of education / drills in schools, etc
- estimated 20,000 deaths
- had a sea wall but the wave was higher (15m)
- Fukushima nuclear power plant
- Japan = developed country
- Eyjafjallajokull (EFJ) volcano 2010
- jokulhaups
- disruption to European flights for 6 days - tephra
- affected international trade and had large econ impacts ($3bn+)
- Mount Nyiragongo 2002
- fastest-flowing lava (low viscosity, basalt, high temp)
- DRC = developing country w/ less education and preparedness
- city of Goma nearby
- 45 deaths, 500,000 fled city, damage to properties and infrastructure
- methods like lava diversion wouldn't work because of lava
- Bam EQ 2003
- mag 6.6
- 3 main hospitals damaged and 20% health workers killed
- Philippines - a multiple-hazard zone
- volcanoes, EQs, tropical storms, tsunamis
- developing
- 40% below poverty line
- most people live on coast and rely on fishing / tourism
- 2013: 3 natural disasters in 3 months, no time to recover between
- Kashmir 2005
- villagers were the first on the scene to remove rubble / search for survivors
- Californian coast - a multiple hazard zone
- San Andreas fault - conservative / transform boundary
- Haiti EQ 2010
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