Hazards

Question 1

Japanese Earthquake

Impact on the Landscape (3)

Answer 1

• Shaking ground cause landslides
• Gas pipes and cables damages causing fires
• Tsunami swept 10 km inland destroying everything
• Fukushima 6 reactors were very hot and needed to be cooled. Cooling systems stopped working due to power cuts. Emergency generators kicked in but were flooded by the tsunami. Reactors 1,2 and 3 experienced a full meltdown. Releasing radiation

Question 2

Japanese earthquake

Impact on the people (3)

Answer 2

• Earthquake + tsunami killed 19,000
• Power shortages for days
• 500,000 left homeless
• Radiation from increased the risk of cancer by 1% in locals

Question 3

Japanese Earthquake

Aid recieved

Answer 3

• USA gave $100,000 and 2 search and rescue teams
• India gave woolen clothes and blankets
• Germany gave search and rescue rapid eye satalite imagery

Question 4

Planning for an earthquake, Give examples (6)

Answer 4

Earthquake detection system
Earthquake and tsunami drills
Tsunami warning
Earthquake proof buildings
Safety measures- water sprinklers, gas cut off valves
- used in Japan, California, San Andreas fault line

Question 5

Mt St Helens

Impact on the landscape (3)

Answer 5

• Landslide buried the North folk Toutle river
• The blast and the pyroclastic flow killed everything 25km north of the volcano
• 7000 animals died
• Mudflow choked the river killing 12 million salmon

Question 6

Mt St Helens

Impact on the people (3)

Answer 6

• 90% of people killed were outside the the exclusion zone.
• 57 people died
• 198 were rescued
• People swept away by lahars
• Ash made the soil infertile costing farmers

Question 7

Mt St Helens

Aid recieved

Answer 7

• $145 million was given by US government
• New salmon hatcheries
• $50 million was spent on a Mt St Helen visitor centre
• Millions of trees were replanted

Question 8

Hurricane Katrina

Impact on the Landscape (3)

Answer 8

• $1.5 billion worth of damage in Southern Florida
• Torrential rain (350 mm in some areas)
• New Orleans flooded under 6m
• 200 km/h winds Louisiana
• Mississippi 8 m waves destroyed houses

Question 9

Hurricane Katrina

Impact on the people (3)

Answer 9

• Killed 1836 people
• Most people drowned in the flood or collapsing building
• Many had to be rescued from rooftops
• 1 million made homeless
• hundreds of thousands of people were left unemployed.

Question 10

Hurricane Katrina

Aid received

Answer 10

• Aid was received from charities
• President Bush gave $110 billion to rebuild homes and lives but only $44 billion has been spent.
• UK and china sent rescue workers immediately
• Pakistan sent doctors

Question 11

Planning for a Hurricane (6)

Answer 11

• Hurricane preparedness week
  Plenty of warning was given to the possible locations that could get affected
  90% of New Orleans had left the city
  Those left used the super dome for safety.