types of seismic hazard

Question 1

evironmental primary hazard

Answer 1

• earthquake - fault lines - destroy environment
• liquifaction

Question 2

economic primary hazard

Answer 2

• business destroyed

Question 3

social primary hazard

Answer 3

• buildings collapse, killing/injuring people and trapping them

Question 4

political primary hazard

Answer 4

• government buildings destroyed

Question 5

environmental secondary hazard

Answer 5

• radioactive materials + dangerous substances - leaked from power plants
• saltwater form tsunami flood on freshwater ecosystems
• soil salinisation

Question 6

economic secondary hazard

Answer 6

• economic decline - buisness destroyed
• high cost of rebuilding
• source of income lost

Question 7

social secondary hazard

Answer 7

• gas copies rupture - start fires that kill
• water supplies contaminated - spread diseases and floods
• tsunamis - damaged flooding

Question 8

policial secondary hazard

Answer 8

• political unrest - food and water shortages
• borrowing money - international aid
• initial chaos and lawlessness