Environmental Hazards Impacts Flashcards
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Impacts of Hurricane Mitch (6)
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- Over 11,000 killed
-Over 2 million left homeless - Lost their main forms of income
- Broken sewage pipes led to more deaths
- Banana trees were destroyed
- Much of the fertile top soil was washed away
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Preparing for and reducing impacts of hurricane Mitch (6)
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- Satellites, Radar and weather planes predicted the path of the storm
- UN supported farmers
- $6.3 Billion in aid
- Charities like red cross provided water purification kits and medicine
- Food, clothing and temp shelter provided
- Hurricane alerts issued to all danger zones
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Impacts of Haiti earthquake (6)
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- Water pipes damaged causing cholera outbreak
- Over 200,000 people killed
- Over 1 million left homeless
- All 4000 prisoners escaped port au prince prison
- 1 in 5 people lost their jobs
- Griding of tectonic plates caused white dust and breathing problems
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Reducing impact of Haiti earthquake (6)
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- ‘Food for work’ campaign
- Re-build buildings with strengthened corners
- Planes used to drop food parcels and medicine
- Food, medicine, shelter by Red cross
- United nations sent peace-keeping forces
-People used their hand to free others
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Impacts of Mt St Helen eruption (6)
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- Flights cancelled across America because of ash
- 61 people killed
- Facemasks to protect lungs from ash
- 15cm of ash fell, traffic chaos and killing farm crops
- Snow melted causing massive mudflow
- Pyroclastic flow killed every tree in a 20km radius
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Preparing for and reducing impacts of mount St Helens (6)
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- America as a rich country has access to helicopters with night vision and heat sensors to search for injured
- Seismometers and other instruments used to monitor activity of the volcano and predict when it would erupt
- An exclusion zone was set up a week before it erupted saving many lives
- Short term aid provided quickly
- Hired over 200,000 people to help remove ash/ rebuild
- Millions of trees were re-planted and rivers were dredged and cleared of logs and ash
