Physcial Geography Tectonics Flashcards

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Vulnerability

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Ability to anticipate, cope with and resist and recover from natural hazard

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Resilience

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ability to protect lives,livelihood and infrastructure from destruction and to restore areas after natural hazard

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Natural Hazard ➡️ Natural Disaster. Economic and Social Conditions

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lack of education may be less aware of the risk and ways to protect themselves
poor quality of housing less able to withstand hazards like earthquakes
communities with poor health less likely to recover and cope with the hazard and suffer more disease

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Natural Hazard ➡️ Natural Disaster. Physical and environmental conditions

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areas with high population density tend to have poor quality of housing
rapid urbanisation, typically people from rural to cities means more houses need to be built fast which tends to be in poor conditions
accessibility of an area affects how quickly rescuers and aid can arrive

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Governance (local and national) and political conditions

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enforcement of building codes and regulations determine the quality of the structures
quality of existing infrastructure (transport links and power supply) affects the countries recover speed
existence of disasters preparedness plans influences how quickly a country can cope and recover from natural hazard
communications systems affects ability to inform people of a hazard in advance and coordinate rescuer efforts.

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social impacts of hazards - volcanic eruptions

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Monsterat
7000 moved to other countries
loss of life - dozen
two thirds of all houses, 3/4 of infrastructure were destroyed
unemployment rose as island tourist industry collapsed
top heavy population pyramid was created, younger people saw no future and left the island
farmland destroyed or left as it was too close to the volcano - affected agriculture severly

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how do you measure volcano eruptions

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VEI -volcanic explosivity index

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what does the vei to assign a number to the scale of the volcano

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amount and height of the volcanic ejected material (tephra and ash fall)
how long eruption last for
qualitative descriptive terms (gentle, explosive)

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what equipment can be used when PREDICTING eruptions

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GPS and satelite based radar

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what signs are there of a potential eruptions?

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small earthquakes - as magma rises to the surface it breaks rock, causing small earthquakes which scientist can detect on sesimograms
changes to the surface of the volcano - magma buildsp pressure as it pushes upwards
changes to tilt of the volcano as magma moves inside the volcano it changes the slope angle or tilt

NOT ALL VOLCANOES ARE MONIOTRED AND CORRECT

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primary effects of earthquakes

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ground shaking - buildings, roads, bridges destroyed, killing or injuring people
crustual fracturing - energy released causes earth to crack resulting in holes in ground

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secomdary effects of earthquakes

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liquefaction - surface rocks to lose strength and become liquid, cuases buildings and roads to tilt or slip - makes recue efforts harder
landslides - ground shaking places stress on slopes so they fail - causes major damage
tsunami - underwater earthquakes generate tsunami - causes major damage

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Haiti - What type of country is it and where is it located

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Developing country

located on the fault between north american and carribean plate

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Haiti - How did physcial factors affect the earthquake

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shallow focus (13KM) increased amount of ground shaking
liquefaction on looser soil caused many builidng foundations to sink
epicentre was only 24km from the Port-Au-Prince (captial and most dense populated city home to 2 million people

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Haiti - social, economic, political factors

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poor country - limited resources were being spent on diseases rather than earthquake protection
high level of corruption at national and local led to lack of resources and commitment to improve infrastructure
lack of building control and regulation - Port-Au-Prince was poorly built, slum housing. Building could not sustain ground shaking
Dense urban enviromenmt made rescue efforts hard
Many Haitians living in poverty - resources not their to cope and prepare

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Haiti - Impacts

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Only one airport, several ports and a few main roads. When destroyed, aid supplies were prevented from arriving - slowing down rescue efforts leading to more deaths
more than 1/4 of government officials were killed - key governmenmt buildings destroyed - making less able to organise recovery efforts and organise relief efforts
outbreak of Chloera (fatal infection cuased by poor sanitation) in 2010 and 2016. Lack of medical supplies and trained workers cuased disease to spread and kill 9000 and 720000 affected

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Haiti - Recovery

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2015 - Five years later Haiti still recovering,
USA $13 Billion of aid had been donated. However onlu 10% controlled by Haitian government and Haitian organisations. Most with international organisations
Due to government officials being killed international organisation needed to provide emergency services
Concerns about corruption and mismanagement lead to organisation unwilling to channel money to Haitian government directly. Instead they chose to manage projects themselves, bringing own staff from overseas.
This hampared Haiti to become self sufficient

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Haiti - Progress Recovery

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Progress has been slow, 80,000 Haitians living in temp houses or camps as of 2015, Chloera was a problem
New houses, schools, roads, buildings have been built
Goverment getting stronger and able to cope with hazards like the 2013 where they warned people of a storm and go to the high ground which saved lives.
Gov also took lead role in organsing aid after the storm 2013

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What does the PAR model do

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looks at underlying cuases of disaster

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what sides does the par model look at

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processess that create vulnerability as root causes, dynamic pressures and unsafe conditions
other side is the hazard

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Progression of vulnerbaility in hazard in HAITI

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extensive corruption in government -> lack of effective education systems, disaster preparedness and management systems. Macro forces, rapid urbanisation
unsafe conditions
illegal housing in unsafe houses such as hillsides
poor infrastructure
before earthquake, 39% had access to safe water and 24% sanitation

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China (EMERGING COUNTRY)
How many people were affected
Size of the earthquake, WHERE?

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  1. 9 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan

45. 5 million people affected in ten provinces and regions. 5 milllion made homeless

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China - what did the earthquake trigger?

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landslides that led to quarter of earthquake deaths

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China and Haiti Similarties?

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devasting earthquakes
corrupt government ignoring builidng codes and accepted bribes to allow buidings to take shortcuts, resulted in buildings not being able to with stand shakie

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China - Effects of corruption in Sichuan?
schools fell down killing 5335 children, while property built government buildings nearby remain standing
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China - Outcomes of Sichaun earthquake
location meant damange was in rural areas and small towns not dense places China wealthier than Haiti - so it had money to pay for resuce efforts and aid efforts China strong central government responses quickly and effectively to disaster
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How did China respond to the earthquake
130,00 soilders and reliefd works within hours sent to affected areas medical services restored quickly helped avoid outbreaks people in danger of landslides evacuated Chinese banks wrote off debt from people without insurance Temp houses, roads and bridges were being built in 2 weeks
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What did China do after the 2008 earthquake
40,000 people moved to newly built city called Yongchang. cracks were seen in brand new homes which lead to arrest of local officials taking bribes
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What did China do for the long term
97% of the planned 29704 reconstruction projects in the region started 99% of 196000 farmhouses destroyed have been rebuilt 216 transport projects (highways, main roads, railways and airports) being built or completed Area more resiilent to future hazards, improved peopels lives
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Japan - DEVELOPED COUNTRY Size of 2011 earthquake Where
9.0 magnitude earthquake under the pacific ocean. | 100KM east of Sendai on eastern coast of Japanese island of Honshu
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Japan - Tsunami info
seawater displacement caused tsunami to spread in all direction at hundreds of kilometrers per hour waves reached 10 metres high and surged 10KM inland Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant severly damaged and released dangerous levels of radiation into air. 47000 people evacauted. Today exclusion zone of 20km still exists
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Japan - Preparation
low level of corruption meant building regulations were strictly enforced 75% of buildings were constructed with earthquakes in mind unlike Haiti NONE
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Japan - Preperation - Diaster Plan
offices and homes equipped with emergency kits early warning systems detected earthquake one minute in advance, giving people warning areas vulnerable to tsunamis has 10 metre wall installed already, and shelters and marked evacuation routes helped reduce loss of life
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Japan - Response
within 24 hours 110 defence troops had been mobllised all radio and tv stations immediatly switched to offical coverage which told people what is happening bank of japan offered $183 billion to japanease banks so they could operate Japan accepted quicky aid from 20 other countries, where as Haiti had delays and poor infrastructure, in China whilst they accepted they were not used to accepting countries help so procedure was not in place
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hazard mitagation
straegies to avoid, delay or prevant hazard events (diverting lava flows, GIS mapping, land use zoning)
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hazard adaptations
strategies designed to reduce impacts of hazard events (high tech monitoring, crisis mapping, modelling hazard impacts (public education)
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What is a hazard
naturally occurring process or event which has the potential to cause loss of life or injury, property damage social economic disruption or environmental degradation
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Vulnerability Equation
RISK = HAZARD X VULNERABILITY
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Pressure Release Model - Vulnerbailty
Unsafe living conditions Dynamic Pressures - population, financial mismanagment Root Causes
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Pressure Release Model
Geographical modification | Natural Tectonic Processes
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what is created when hazard and vulnerability meets in a pressure release model
when the hazard and vulnerability both interrupt each other THE RISK IS CREATED and is very high
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What are multiple hazard zones
MHZ are considered to be regions or parts of the world that are expose to a range of hazards (often a combination of meteorological climatic and geomorphic impacts
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examples of multiple hazard zones
Philipines California Haiti Japan
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Stage 1 of Park model
modifying the cause and event
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Stage 2 of Park Model
hazardous event
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Stage 3 of Park Model
Search and rescue and care
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Stage 4 of Park Model
Relief and rehabilitation period - may include outside help (national or international)
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Stage 5 of Park Model
Nature of Recovery related to Need to reduce vulnerbality Need to restore normality soon as possible
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Improvement or Return to Normality - Park Model
HIC typically tend to improve | LIC try and return to normality
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Physical factors of Hazard Management Cycle
Type of hazard - scale, impact, magnitude, frequency. | Climate (monsoon rain causes access problems)
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Human factors that affect Hazard Management Cycle
Number of people involved in incident Technological resources, quality of engineering Economic Wealth, level of a countries/regions development
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Hazard Management Cycle Progress
Hazard ➡️ Emergency ➡️ Recovery ➡️ Reconstruction | ➡️ Disaster free period
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Drawbacks of Park Model
Factors such as location can affect it, eg mountain and a county cannot move that some countries may need more help than others