This document provides key facts and explanations around key case studies that will be very helpful for exam revision and further in depth knowledge. These slides provide you with case studies from topics Tectonics, Coasts, Carbon and Water from the 2016 geography Edexcel course.
● Nepal is a multiple hazard zone with a steep mountain landscape -> exposed to landslides, debris and floods as well
as earthquakes
● It's landlocked and sits on the boundary of the Indo-Australian and Asian plate
● 7.8 magnitude with 9000 deaths and 22,000+ injured
● Approximately 30 million people live in poorly built houses
● More than 1/2 million homes destroyed or are pre-cautiously habitable = 2.5 million internally displaced
● More than 3500 schools destroyed
● Poor and socially excluded groups are less able to absorb shocks than well-positioned and better-off households
● There was some seismic activity in the Jumla district before the main shock BUT they are not foreshocks to the main
shock - as of 7th June 2015, over 304 aftershocks have occurred
, Tectonics - Haiti Earthquake (2010)
● Small island located in the Caribbean, Southeast of the USA and east of Cuba
● GDP per capita - $345.89; HDI - 0.456
● 7.0 magnitude
● Caused by North American plate sliding past the Caribbean plate at a conservative plate margin - both plates move
in the same direction BUT one moved faster than the other -> pressure built up due to friction released = earthquake
● Between 5-6 million people live in rural areas -> about 85% of the rural population practice some agriculture = about
26% of Haiti's economy
● Over 188,383 houses were badly damaged and 105,000 were destroyed by the quake (293,383 in total)
● 4000 schools were damaged/destroyed
● 250,000 homes and 300,000 other buildings (including the President's Palace and 60% of the government's
buildings) were badly damaged/destroyed
● $100 million in aid given by the USA and $330 million by the European Union -> 810,000 people placed in aid camps,
115,000 tents and 1,000,000+ tarpaulin shelters provided
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