AQA A-level Geography Revision Table for Seismic Hazards- Tohoku 2011; Chirstchurch and Haiti 2010- main facts; impacts; responses and more + Human Geography detail and Physical Geography
made and used by A/A* student
Earthquake Magnitude, Social Economic Environmenta Response.
Case Study focus, impacts impacts l impacts Development
epicentre and Why it was
Facts about so impactful
location
Haiti 2010 7 on Richter 80 %below The port was Landslide Immediate
scale the poverty damaged ,whic hazard due to response troop
Depth: line; 38% of h stopped aid deforestation, sent by Iceland
shallow- 8 pop is under and led to damage of 1100 camps
to 10km 14 yo; 53% major agricultural accommodated
Location of literacy rate economic land as only the 1.5 million
epicentre- 230 000 ppl challenges- 2% of land is homeless
15 km killed by the trade had to forested Bottled water
southwest unstable stop Contaminated was provided
of Port-au- buildings Infrastructure water supply by the
Prince- the Port destroyed- 60% with sewage UK Disaster
capital of destroyed of buildings in waste Emergency
Haiti; the due to lateral the capital With the Committee
most spreading as were destroyed cholera (DEC)
densely a result of The Haiti gov outbreak, it Why was it so
populated liquefaction was unable to was difficult impactful?
city in the The buildings help- no plan; to supply Haiti is a multi-
poorest were low no response; clean water hazard env- the
country of quality and loss of lives and Tropical Storm
the West, only 15% capital Jeanne in 2004
sharing the more steel Education had destroyed 60%
same main would’ve to stop; of harvest-
island with made them children are economic,
Dominical more stable- now back at social and env
Republic. retrofitting school, issue
It is reliant has to be however 810 HAITI RANKS
on aid and done- pacing 000 ppl still live THIRD ON THE
remittances steel on in camps CLIMATE RISK
as 32% of corners to INDEX- affected
its GNI is prevent the by climate
remittances buildings change
and 30% is from 8% of food is
foreign aid; pancaking. supplied by
At a Cholera international
subduction outbreak due food assistance
zone- quite to Nepali UN 48% of food is
unstable workers grown locally,
part of the bringing it therefore
world as is back after damage to the
it 100 years – 6 local env will
surrounded 900 ppl died trigger food
by plate as a result; insecurity
boundaries; 500 000 cases Migration - the
the reported number of
Caribbean Nurses left to Haitians
plate work for the arriving
, subducts UN- brain annually to
under the drain Chile jumped
North- 1.5 million from 12,000 to
American ppl homeless 103,000 and by
plate, which 5000 schools mid-2020 it is
causes destroyed estimated that
strike-slip Rape became over 230,000
movement an even Haitians were
as well bigger issue- living in Chile.
lawless city as The country is
the prison chronically food
was also insecure
destroyed AID: The United
and prisoners States and
escaped other countries
have sent over
$13 billion in
foreign aid to
Haiti since
2010, much of
which has
proven
ineffective at
addressing the
root causes of
food security
and migration
and has
sometimes
made the
situation
worse.
RAPID
URBANISATION
made ppl move
into badly
constructed
houses on
claimed land
and
unconsolidated
materials which
are usually
vulnerable to
amplification!!
No education-
panic, had no
idea what to
do, had no drills
before, didn’t
know how to
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