1.6C Statistics and Disasters

Question 1

Social equality deviates based on the size of a countries…

Answer 1

Population

Question 2

Safety responses are more difficult when there is a higher population because…

Answer 2

There is a higher cost impact on the country managing the situation and there is difficulty making sure that the safety responses are distributed effectively/evenly

Question 3

Japan is a undeveloped country. T or F?

Answer 3

F - it is developed and has one of the better earthquake management systems worldwide despite being affected heavily by the 2011 EQ.

Question 4

Buildings collapsing X Death toll graph will have what correlation?

Answer 4

Positive

Question 5

Magnitude X Death toll graph will have what correlation?

Answer 5

Fairly random, depends on where the disaster is occurring

Question 6

Stats on disasters don’t account for…. Factors

Answer 6

Contextual, where it is, what time of day it was etc can have an impact on data