The Challenge of Natural Hazards: Paper 1 Section A

Question 1

Immediate responses

Answer 1

-Evacuate People.
-Treat the Injured.
-Provide temporary supplies.
-Provide food drink and shelter.
-Foreign governements or charities may send aid workers, supplies or financial donations

Question 2

Long term responses

Answer 2

-Repair homes or rehouse people who have lost their homes.
-Repair or rebuild buildings, roads, railways and bridges.
-Reconnect broken pipes and communication.
-Improve forecasting, monitoring and evacuation plans.
-Improve building regulations.
-Boost economic recovery.

Question 3

Why do people continue to live in areas of risk of tectonic hazards?

Answer 3

-They’ve always lived there.
-Monitoring and evacuation plans can minimise risk.
-Confident government will support them after an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
-The minerals from volcanic ash makes soil very fertile.
-Volcanoes are tourist attraction so people can work in tourist industries for work.

Question 4

Immediate response typhoon haiyan

Answer 4

-PAGASA broadcast warning two days before it made landfall leading to the evacuation of 800,000 people before the storm.
-Fishermen warned not to go to sea.
-Charities offered aid with food, shelter and clean water
-Pit latrines were made for 100,000 people to help prevent the spread of disease.

Question 5

Long term typhoon Haiyan

Answer 5

-UN appealed for over $300 million to help fund rebuilding and relief.
-Charities built new storm-resistant houses for those who lost their homes.
-Phillipines tourism board encouraged people to visit the country after the storm by emphasising that most areas were unaffectedand money from tourism would help rebuild.