Geography case studies

Geography case studies

1. Haiti

   • NA and Caribbean plates
     • 6 months after, 98% of rubble uncleared
   • 316,000 deaths
   • 280,000 buildings damaged
   • Aid
   • Infrastructure damaged rescue efforts
   • Dominican Republic

2. Kobe

   • Destructive plate margin
   • Jan 1995
   • 6.9 on the Richter scale
   • Pacific and Eurasian
   • 5000 deaths
   • 300,000 homeless
   • New earthquake proofing laws
   • Water
   • No aid needed

3. Indian Ocean

   • Indo-Australian plate subducted under the Eurasian plate
   • Speeds up to 800kph
   • 250,000 dead
   • 13 countries hit, Indonesia worst
   • 2 million made homeless
   • Early warning system set up
   • 2/3 of Male underwater

4. Nyiragongo

   • East African rift
   • Constructive plate margin
   • Jan 2002
   • Lava- 60kph
   • 300,000 evacuated
   • 45 dead
   • Cholera spread
   • No shelter, electricity or clean water
   • Christian Aid and Oxfam
   • Aid reliant
   • Unstable government

5. Eyjafjallajokull

   • Ash plume 8km high
   • March 2010
   • Flooding
   • 800 evacuated
   • Flight chaos
   • Kenya had to burn flowers, lost 3000 tonnes

6. Andes

   • Farming
     • Terraces- retain water
     • Subsistence
     • Llamas- transport and wool
   • Mining
     • Yanacocha
     • Coal, oil, tin, gold, silver, copper, iron
   • HEP
     • Narrow valleys
     • Snow melting
   • Tourism
     • Machu Picchu
     • Inca trail