Earthquake case studies 3.1.3 Flashcards

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Port au Prince

location, date

A

Haiti, 2015

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Port au Prince

plate boundary

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transform plate boundary
friction between the plates built up pressure which was released as an earthquake
North American and Caribbean plates
in the ring of fire

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Port au Prince

impacts, effects, hazards

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  • 5 million people displaced
  • $14 billion costs
  • 230,000 people died
  • 1.5 million homeless
  • forced migration
  • immense humanitarian crisis
  • $13 billion in aid donated
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Boxing day tsunami

location, time

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In the Indian Ocean
26th December 2004
30m high waves created by underwater seismic activity
magnitude 9.1 
900 mile stretch of fault line ruptured
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Boxing day tsunami

plate boundary

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Oceanic Indio-Australian plate subducting the continental Eurasian plate

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Boxing day tsunami

hazards, impacts, effects

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$15 billion damage costs
Impacted 14 countries
228,000 people died in in 14 countries
5 million people effected
1.7 million people left homeless
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Nepal earthquake

location, time

A

City of Kathmandu
2015
aka Gorkha earthquake

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Nepal earthquake

plate boundary

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Convergent plate boundary
Indian and Eurasian plates
Indian plate subducted
pressure created when the plates locked

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Nepal earthquake

hazards, impacts, effects

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ground shaking, landslides, rockfalls
7.8 magnitude
600,000 structures in nearby towns destroyed
avalanches in the Himalayas
9000 people died
$10 billion damage to infrastructure, home, agriculture
damage cost almost half of Nepal’s economy

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Tohoku earthquake

location, time

A

2011
Japan
9.1 magnitude

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Tohoku earthquake

plate boundary

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Pacific plate subducted North American plate
converging
build up of energy from collision of plates caused an earthquake when it was released

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Tohoku earthquake

hazards, impacts, effects

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Largest earthquake ever in Japan
tsunami with 130 foot waves
damage to nuclear reactors in the area
20,000 deaths
2,500 people missing
300,000 refugees in the Tohoku region
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13
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example of liquefaction

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Christchurch earthquakes, NZ
2010
infrastructure collapsed

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