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​Concordant Coast

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South Dorset Coast

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​Discordant Coast

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Swanage Bay

  • on the Isle of Purbeck in East Dorset
  • formed by the erosion of less resistant Wealden Clays
  • However, structure is not the only factor influencing the indentation of Swanage Bay, since Swanage bay faces east, and is sheltered from the prevailing south westerly wind and highest energy waves.
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Cuspate foreland

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Dungeness in Kent

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Switched on to globalisation

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Zambia

  • world’s eighth largest producer of raw and part-processed copper
  • landlocked - relies on good political relations with countries to access ports
  • 92% literacy rate (above avg for Subsaharan Africa)
  • rail links paid for by Chinese investments - carries copper for export
  • Development indicators increasing as a result of improving economy
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Switched off to globalisation

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Tanzania

  • 80% of working population in agriculture
  • economy relies on raw cotton, which price frequently fluctuates and falls
  • Struggling to switch on as no guarantee of income and GDP fluctuates.
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Haiti Earthquake

  • When?
  • Magnitude
  • Death toll
  • Economic damage
  • Time of day
  • Type of plate boundary
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  • January 2010
  • Magnitude 7.0
  • 300 000 deaths
  • $8 billion
  • 16:53
  • Conservative
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Kobe earthquake

  • When?
  • Magnitude
  • Death toll
  • Economic damage
  • Time of day
  • Type of plate boundary
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  • January 1995
  • Magnitude 6.9
  • 6000 deaths
  • $200 billion
  • 5:46am
  • Destructive
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Loma Prieta earthquake

  • When?
  • Magnitude
  • Death toll
  • Economic damage
  • Time of day
  • Type of plate boundary
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  • 1989
  • Magnitude 6.9
  • 63 deaths
  • $6 billion (equivalent to $12 billion today)
  • 5pm
  • San Andreas Fault - Conservative
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Christchurch

  • When?
  • Magnitude
  • Death toll
  • Time of day
  • Type of plate boundary
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  • 2011
  • Magnitude 6.2
  • 185 deaths
  • 1pm
  • destructive
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Boxing day

  • When?
  • Magnitude
  • Death toll
  • Economic damage
  • Time of day
  • Type of plate boundary
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  • 2004
  • Magnitude 9.1
  • 228,000 deaths
  • $10 billion
  • 8am
  • Destructive
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Tohoku

  • When?
  • Magnitude
  • Death toll
  • Economic damage
  • Time of day
  • Type of plate boundary
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  • 2011
  • Magnitude 9.0
  • 15,900 deaths
  • $360 billion
  • 14:46
  • destructive
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Sichuan

  • When?
  • Magnitude
  • Death toll
  • Economic damage
  • Time of day
  • Type of plate boundary
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  • 2008
  • Magnitude 8.0
  • 87,500 deaths
  • $86 billion
  • 14:28
  • destructive
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Mt St Helens
When?
VEI?
Deaths?
Cost?
Anything else?
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  • 1980
  • VEI 5
  • 57 deaths
  • Cost $1 billion
  • Lateral eruption caused more damage, caused the largest landslide in recorded history
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Mt Pinatubo
When?
VEI?
Deaths?
Cost?
Anything else?
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  • 1991
  • VEI 6
  • 821 deaths
  • $700 million
  • Cyclone Yunya came in and rained down volcanic ash
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Montserrat
When?
VEI?
Deaths?
Cost?
Anything else?
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  • 1995-1997
  • 19 deaths
  • 2/3 uninhabitable, 7000 permanently moved
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Izmit Turkey
When?
Magnitude?
Deaths?
Cost?
Anything else?
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  • 1999
  • Magnitude 7.6
  • 17000 deaths
  • $8 billion
17
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Hold the line

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Dungeness Cuspate Foreland

  • 2 nuclear power stations
  • protected daily by mechanical shingle movement from the East coastline to the West coastline
18
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Advance the line

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Herne Bay, Neptunes Arm

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