Tectonic Hazard EQ3

Question 1

How did the Eyjafjallajökull have global effects

Answer 1

110 million ash emitted in a week
Disrupted flights
Prevailing winds effected Europe
Business tourism
3 billion

Question 3

Where is one multi hazard zone

Answer 3

Philippines

Question 4

What is a hazard hot spot

Answer 4

Area faces two or more hazards

Question 5

What happened at mount pintubo in 1991

Answer 5

Largest eruption in 50 years- predictions useless
Government education 2 weeks before in risks of lahars and pyroclastic flows
Farm land destroyed
Economic loss of 710 million

Question 6

What happend at the guinsaugon landslide

Answer 6

Central Philippines
Mudslide obliterated village

Question 7

What caused the guinsaugaugon landslide

Answer 7

Unseasonal torrential rainfall -climate change
La Niña
2.6 mag earthquake

Question 8

How did human activities cause guinsaugon land slide

Answer 8

Deforestation-reducing forest exposing soil
Removal of ancient native trees with deep roots for cash crops

Question 9

What does the parks model look at

Answer 9

Responses to hazards and consists of a graph
Allows evaluation of how well a country deals with event
How important role of government is
Importance of management plan before hazard

Question 11

Strategies to modify vulnerability and resilience

Answer 11

Hi tec monitoring
Education
Community preparedness
Adaption

Question 12

Stratigies to modify loss include

Answer 12

Emergency short and longer term aid
Insurance and the actions of affected communities themselves

Question 13

Stratified to modify event include

Answer 13

Land use zoning
Hazard resistant design and engineering

Question 14

What are issues with prediction and forecasting

Answer 14

Predictions are easy to make specially but hard temporally
Magnitude of event effects usefulness of the prediction
Scientists lack accuracy limits effectiveness of research