Tectonics case study

Question 1

Kenya

2010 E15

Answer 1

• Kenya lost $1.3 million a day due to lost shipments to europe (export of flowers)
• prevented 2.8 million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere
• plankton boom in artic
• aviation industry lost 2.6 billion dollars

Question 2

Sichuan earthquake

Answer 2

• magnitude 7.9
• 70,000 deaths
• 11 million became homeless

Question 3

Boxing day tsunami 2004

find developed and developing

Answer 3

• 250,000 deaths
• 18 countries affected
• 13 billion in damage
• 6 billion damage indonesia

Question 4

2011 Japan earthquake /tsunami

Answer 4

• magnitude 9
• waves up to 40 metres high
• just under 16,000 deaths
• damges of 2-300 billion
• damage to over 300,000 buldings

Question 5

Haiti earthquake

Answer 5

• magnitude 7
• $14 billion in damage
• loss of agricultural land
• death toll of over 300,000

Question 6

Monseratt volcano

Answer 6

• 3-4 vei
• GDP halfed in 4 years
• 14 deaths
• brain drain
• 3/4 of infasrructure destroyed

Question 7

Philiipines

Multiple hazard zone

Answer 7

• 22 active volcanoes
• 30% of the population live within 30km of a volcano
• growing population
• 25% of which is in poverty
  2013
• earthquake -200 deaths
• typhoon - 6000 deaths
• floods - 60 deaths
  *over 6200 deaths *