Paper 1 Case Studies Figures

Question 1

What were the primary effects of hurricane Katrina?

Answer 1

1,800 dead
150,000 houses destroyed
3 million without electricity

Question 2

What are the secondary effects of hurricane Katrina?

Answer 2

2,400 buisinesses bankrupt
Damage of 125 billion
-hundreds of thousands made homless

Question 3

What was the immediate responses to hurricane Katrina?

Answer 3

1.7 million evacuated

700 buses sent, only 100 arrived

Question 4

Long term responses to Hurricane Katrina?

Answer 4

• congress give 62 bn to feed and rehouse victims

- 20 billion on rebuilding flood defences

Question 5

What were the effects of cyclone Nargis?

Answer 5

140,000 dead
53,000 missing
65% of paddy fields destroyed
10 billion worth of damage

Question 6

What was the response to cyclone Nagis?

Answer 6

• goverment initally refused entry to aid agencies

- they only allowed the first agencies in 1 week later

Question 7

Magnitude of the Hati earthquake?

Answer 7

7.0

Question 8

Social impact of the Hati earthquake?

Answer 8

316k dead
1.5 mil homeless
105k houses destroyed
18K houses damaged

Question 9

Economic imoact of Hati?

Answer 9

1/5 jobs lost/destroyed

30k buisinesses damaged

(Dispite 1.1 billion charity donations)

Question 10

What is the stunning figure abkht hati?

Answer 10

230k in temporary houses 4 yrs later