Geography unit 1 topic 1

Geography unit 1 topic 1

1. Earthquakes

   • Kashmir
     • Magnitude was 7.6 on the richter scale
     • October 2005
     • Epicentre: Muffaffarabad, capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir
     • Primary impacts
       • Property costs: $440 million
     • secondary impacts
       • Homless: 2.8 million
     • Both impacts
       • Injured: 75,000
       • death toll: 75,000
   • The loma prieta
     • Magnitude: 6.9 on the richter scale
     • Epicentre: In a mountainous part of santa cruz country, 96 km south-east of san-fransisco
     • October 1989
     • Primary impacts
       • Property costs: $10 billion
     • Both impacts
       • Death toll: 63
       • Injured: 3,757
     • Secondary impacts
       • Fires
       • Homeless: 12,000

2. Volcano

   • Monserrat
     • 1995- 1997
     • Hazards
       • Large amounts of lava, ash and pyroclastic flows
     • Reasons of severity of impacts
       • Small island
         • poor island
           • Really violent
     • Primary impacts
       • Large amounts of ash
       • buildings collapsing
       • tourist facilities destroyed
       • Agriculture and crops destroyed
     • Secondary impacts
       • two thirds of the population move
       • lack of tourists
       • tourist have no where to go
       • avalanches berry buildings
       • No money coming from crops

3. Managing the San Fransisco earthquake

   • Methods
     • Food supplies
     • Emergency kits
     • Evacuation plans
     • Having 3 days of food and water
   • Evacuation and responce to earthquake
     • Emergency services
       • All have an evacuation plan
     • moving hospitalised people to better hospitals
   • making management easier
     • educating people
   • Facts making it harder
     • Amount of faults
     • roads and exits
     • first aid