Earthquakes

Question 1

Haiti 2010 earthquake

Answer 1

-Poor country
-Low level of education
-Overcrowded
-Politically instability since independence
-over reliance on aid
-healthcare underfunded
-50% population is under 20 year old
-300,000 deaths
-conservative Caribbean along North American
-7 Richter scale
-30/40 seconds

Question 2

Japan 2011

Answer 2

-9.91
-6 minutes
-megathrust
-inaccurately predicted with time-scale
-magnitude resulting in tsunami
-20,000 deaths
-Fukushimo disaster
-highly developed
-ageing population
-converging pacific subducting under North American

Question 3

Nepal 2015

Answer 3

-uk sent over 100 volunteers
-7.8 Richter
-9,000 deaths
-avalanche on mt Everest killed 19
-2.8 million evacuated
-$10billion costs
-Indian and and Eurasian converging

Question 4

Christchurch 2011

Answer 4

-New Zealand
-magnitude 6.2
-185 deaths
-liquefaction
-300 Australian police
-conservative pacific and Australian plate
-$8 billion cost

Question 5

Boxing Day 2004 Indian Ocean

Answer 5

-mega thrust earthquake underwater
-reconstruction took 7 year
-280,000 deaths across 14 countries
-deadliest
-9.1
Converging pacific and North American
30m wave

2 million homeless
Liquefaction
Ocean floor earthquake sensors installed to give warning
International aid