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Haiti - magnitiude

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7

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Haiti - date

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12th Jan 2010

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Haiti - primary impacts

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  • 70% of builings in Port-au-Prince collasped
  • roads blocked
  • 60% of infrastructure destroyed
  • 230,000 deaths
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Haiti - primary deaths

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230,000

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Haiti - secondary impacts

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  • 1.5 mill homeless
  • hospitals + morgues full of bodies -> spread of disease
  • 1 in 5 jobless
  • airport was damaged -> hard for aid to get in
  • cholera epidemic
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Haiti - cholera epidemic deaths

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6,900

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Haiti - short term responses

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  • $100 mill in aid from US
  • 4.3 mil provided with food rations
  • was a lack of immediate aid due to poor planning
  • 810,000 in aid camps
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Haiti - long term responses

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20% of jobs disappered
new homes built to higher standard -> this was v slow
temporary school

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Haiti - why was it vulnerable

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1/2 population below poverty line
lack of building regulations
poor building quality

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China (Sichuan) -magnitude

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7.9

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China (Sichuan) - date

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12th may 2008

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China (Sichuan) - primary impacts

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  • 5,300km of roads damaged
  • 5.6 million buildings collasped
  • $80 billion in damages
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China (Sichuan) - primary deaths

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87,000

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China (Sichuan) - secondary impacts

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  • 4.8 million homeless
  • many struggled to access hospitals
  • landslides
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China (Sichuan) - short term responses

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  • 130,000 soliders deployed to affected areas
  • over £100 mill from red cross
  • medical services restored
  • temporary homes built
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China (Sichuan) - long term response

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banks wrote off debts
$10 million from gov to rebuild

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Christchurch - magnitude

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6.3

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Christchurch - date

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22 feb 2011

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Christchurch - primary effects

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100,000 homes damaged
water + sewage pipes burst
185 died
$28 mil in damage

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Christchurch - deaths

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185

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Christchurch - secondary impacts

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2,200 in temporary housing
schools closed for 2 weeks
1/3 of population migrated from the city

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Christchurch - short term responses

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$6-7 mil in aid
rescue crews set to affected areas
red cross sent out aid workers

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Christchurch - long term resonses

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christchurch divided into 4 zones indicating damage and need to rebuild
changes to housing regulations
water + sewage restored
80% roads repaired

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Japanese tsunami - magnitude

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9

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Japanese tsunami -date

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11 march 2011

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Japanese tsunami - wave height

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9m

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Japanese tsunami - primary impacts

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16,000 deaths
47,000 buildings damaged
$181 mil of damage

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Japanese tsunami -secondary impacts

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7 reactors at Fukishima experienced a meltdown -> radiation levels skyrockted
rural areas were isolated
liquefaction in Tokyo

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Japanese tsunami - immediate responses

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  • tsunami warning was put out
  • search + resuce teams deployed
  • 20km evaulation zone around power plant
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Japanese tsunami - long term responses

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  • reconstruction to water + energy supplies
  • coastal protection scheme in place for future tsunamis
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Indian ocean tsunami - magnitude

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9.2

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Indian ocean tsunami - date

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boxing day

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Indian ocean tsunami - primary impacts

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1.7 mil displaced
18,000 homes destroyed
affected 13 countries

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Indian ocean tsunami - deaths

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220,000

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Indian ocean tsunami - secondary impacts

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  • $15 mil in economic losses
  • drinking water contaiminated
  • tourist + fishing industries disrupted
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Indian ocean tsunami - immediate responses

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  • fresh water, food + shelter provided
  • £75 mil given by government
  • medical teams sent from abroad
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Indian ocean tsunami - long term responses

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  • indian ocean tsunami warning system set up in 2006
  • local authorities delivering education on tsunamis
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Iceland volcano - VEI

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2

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Iceland volcano - date

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march-may 2010

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Iceland volcano -primary impacts

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30,000 tonnes of co2 released each day
700 people evacuated due to flooding glacier
ash spread 10km

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Iceland volcano - secondary impacts

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no fly zone over Europe
schools closed
europe lost $2.6 mil in GDP
flouride deposits contaiminated water supplies

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Iceland volcano - short term responses

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  • 700 local evacuated
  • red cross provided food + services
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Iceland volcano - long term responses

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increased mointoring of volacno
reconstruction of flood defences
24 hour for info created

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Montserrat volcano - VEI

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5

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Montserrat volcano - date

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18 July 1995

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Montserrat volcano - primary impacts

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20 people died
most buildings in Plymouth (capital) destroyed
50% of water supplies contaiminated

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Montserrat volcano - secondary impacts

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vegetation + farmland destroyed
70% of population left island
high unemployment

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Montserrat volcano - Immediate resonses

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large scale evacuation by Royal Navy
compensation + redevelopment money sent from UK
people evacuated from south to north of island

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Montserrat volcano - long term responses

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volcanic observatory set up to moiontor + predict
new roads + airport
new hospital set up
services in north of island have expanded
volcanic presence bring in tourism

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Hazards in the phillipines

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volcanoes + earthquakes (47 volcanoes)
typhoons - lies on South-east asia typhoon belt
steep topography + deforestation make landslides common
tsunamis

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why is the phillipines vulnerable

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a combination of a rising population, urbanisation + poverty increases vulnerability

  • rapid development has lead tp high density in urban areas
    -most of the countries poor live in coatsal regions most at risk from storm surges
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what is a multi hazard zone

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An area where 2 or more hazrads can occur
these places are often:
- geoglocially young with unstable mountains
- tectonically active
- on major strom track

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