Case studies

Question 1

When was the Haiti earthquake?

Answer 1

2010

Question 2

How many people in Haiti lived on less than $1.20 a day?

Answer 2

70%

Question 3

H-What magnitude and where did it strike?

Answer 3

7.0 mag

struck near the capital (Port au Prince)

Question 4

H- How many deaths?

Answer 4

250,000

Question 5

H- How many affected?

Answer 5

3 million

Question 6

H- What percentage of buildings destroyed?

Answer 6

70%

Question 7

H- how many jobs lost and why?

Answer 7

1 in 5 jobs lost because of broken buildings

Question 8

H- cholera

Answer 8

cholera broke out and by 2012, 8,000 dead

Question 9

H- How many prisoners escaped?

Answer 9

4,000 prisoners escaped because a prison was damaged

Question 10

H- How many people became homeless and lived in refugee camps because of collapsed buildings?

Answer 10

1.5 million

Question 11

H- How long did it take for response to arrive and why?

Answer 11

2-3 days because roads were blocked and planning was poor.

Question 12

H- What did they do with the bodies?

Answer 12

bulldozed into mass graves to stop the spread of disease

Question 13

H- how much was given in aid?

Answer 13

$13 million

Question 14

H- What was the total cost?

Answer 14

$10 billion

Question 15

When was the Japan earthquake & tsunami?

Answer 15

2011, March

Question 16

J- How prepared was japan?

Answer 16

Japan where used to earthquake so people did not evacuate. They had 7m high tsunami walls- not high enough

Question 17

J- What magnitude?

Answer 17

9.0 on the richter scale with over 120 aftershocks over magnitude 5.

Question 18

J- What nuclear power plant was damaged an how many people where evacuated?

Answer 18

Fukushima power plant. 70,000 evacuated

Question 19

J- How many people died?

Answer 19

16,000

Question 20

J- How many injured?

Answer 20

6,000

Question 21

J- How many buildings damaged?

Answer 21

1.2 million

Question 22

J- How high where the waves from the tsunami?

Answer 22

10m high

Question 23

J- What happened because of the FNPP?

Answer 23

It exploded multiple times and realised radioactive material into the air. There were dangerous levels in food stuffs grown within 50km of FNPP.
water supply unsafe to drink

Question 24

J- How many homeless because of collapsed buildings?

Answer 24

500,000-were in evacuation shelters within days

Question 25

J- What happened to Coco Cola?

Answer 25

made 1% less than expected

Question 26

J- What was the total cost?

Answer 26

$300 billion

Question 27

J- How much sent in aid?

Answer 27

$1 billion by Japan Red Cross

Question 28

J- How many buildings restored?

Answer 28

all of them

Question 29

When was Hurricane Katrina?

Answer 29

2005, August

Question 30

K- What category was the hurricane?

Answer 30

5

Question 31

K- What was the land like?

Answer 31

low lying land (2m below sea level)

Question 32

K- How many died?

Answer 32

1,800 dead

Question 33

K- How many jobs lost?

Answer 33

230,000 jobs lost

Question 34

K- How many homes destroyed?

Answer 34

275,000

Question 35

K- How many homeless?

Answer 35

1 million

Question 36

K- Who was evacuated?

Answer 36

70-80% evacuated (richest people)

Question 37

K- What was used as an evacuation centre?

Answer 37

the superdome

Question 38

K- How long did it take for water to arrive?

Answer 38

3 days

Question 39

K- How much money did the US gov give to rebuild?

Answer 39

$16 billion

Question 40

When was the Beast from the East?

Answer 40

2018

Question 41

B- How many died?

Answer 41

10 people died?

Question 42

B- How many schools closed?

Answer 42

100 schools?

Question 43

B- how many car collisions and gritters sent out for major roads?

Answer 43

8,000 collisions | 500 gritters

Question 44

B- How much snow fell in one day?

Answer 44

50cm

Question 45

B- What caused the storm?

Answer 45

polar continental air mass met the tropical maritime mass (storm emma) leading to heavy snow

Question 46

B- How much money lost in a day?

Answer 46

$1 billion