It would result in services being unable to reach areas due to the flooding and many more lives could potentially be lost. Human factors however, are huge in earthquake hazards. The main human factor is the fact that we have settled near/on fault lines and live in areas that we know are vulnerable to earthquakes. Along with this there are issues such as building on reclaimed land which can lead to liquefaction and whole areas are destroyed due to being unsafe to live in. This also leads to fires starting which add to the death toll.
In the last 30 years there have been multiple examples of where volcanic and seismic events have had an impact on both MEDCs and LEDCs. Some of these include the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and the consequential tsunami. In this essay I will show how the impact of volcanic and seismic events have a greater impact on poorer countries than on richer countries. Although prevention of either a volcanic eruption or a seismic event isn’t possible, it is possible to manage them and reduce the overall impact. In theory, this is easier for MEDC’s due having more advantaged technologies and more money available to spend on monitoring the ‘danger zone’ and then warning and planning for the hazard.
This flood was induced by a typhoon that had hit the mountain ranges afterwards and led to surface run off. In this case the country was affected greatly and more than the Californian flooding disaster of 1996-7 because they has no risk management put in place for that particular disaster, meaning the water could simply run into the villages. Secondly they has been hit by a typhoon, many people’s homes had already fallen into disrepair or destroyed, and the flood just helped more to destroy. The people were already vulnerable, flooding helps pass around disease, more people were at risk, as they only had partial homes. On the other hand in California in 1996-7 they were experiencing sub-tropical storms, it had been the wettest December in a while.
To what extent to you agree with the view that the hazards resulting from earthquakes and volcanic activity cannot be managed but merely adapted to. Earthquakes and volcanic activity are both nature disasters that human can’t control when or where it will happen and it may cause lots of death and economic loss. There is no way that we can stop it from being happened but we can definitely try to adapt it by many different ways. Firstly, volcanoes are found at destructive and constructive plate margins. At destructive plate margins, the oceanic plate goes under the continental plate due to it’s more dense, which is a process known as subduction.
Countries that are more developed are usually prepared for the earthquake to occur because warnings around the area go out to make sure everyone knows that an earthquake is going to occur. However countries that are not economically developed have more problems because they don’t know when an earthquake is about to occur and they don’t have emergency plan for their earthquakes. In the USA earthquakes happen often and are mange very well because the government prepares people for earthquake. As the USA develops more over the years, we can see that there have been improvements. In the year 1906, San Francisco, had a major earthquake causing 3,000 people to die.
The primary effected area would be the damage of infrastructure, loss of power, fires and other potentially catastrophic hazards. Much of San Diego is located in low lying valleys and in a densely populated central business district, because of the strong concentration of people damage and loss of life from collapsed infrastructure and debris would be great. According to (Guzzetti& Carrara 1993 ) It is the location to human population that is key distinguishing feature of population risk .Furthermore much of the secondary effects like the loss/damage to property can be severe, according to (californiagreensolutions.com) in the past 26 years an accumulated amount of 19.43 billion dollars of damage has been attributed to catastrophes, and 19.43 billion has been related to earthquake damage. Conclusion Through my findings and research I have found that the two most common natural disasters that San Diego and its outlying areas are susceptible to are wildfires and earthquakes. Although the frequencies for earthquakes are relatively low the possible of catastrophic damage from one is a major possibility during the next 20 years.
Seismic events prove that it is a problematic for the world's population and produce devastating effects on the lives of everyone involved. However it is often said that LEDCs suffer much more from the effects of earthquakes than MEDCs. Whilst this is a generalisation it is probably true, at least in terms of the human cost. Poverty is the condition of lacking basic human needs such as nutrition, clean water, health care, clothing, and shelter because of the inability to afford them. There are several levels of poverty from an individual to national level and earthquake disasters impact at all levels.
Andre Rudenko 1/12/14 Why bother to learn about plate tectonics? Fifty-thousand or more people die or have serious injuries yearly from earthquakes and other geological events which are related to the plate tectonics theory. It is extremely important for students to understand this theory because the serious consequences. For example, one small movement of the internal plates creates strong earthquakes, or the heat under the layers give birth to volcanoes, so a few reasons to know about this are safety, inspiration, and knowledge. The most important reason is safety.
Finally the way fracking impacted animal and human health. For example; chronic dizziness, headaches, abscessed teeth, or other mouth problems, and neurological problems after drilling started near their homes. Overall fracking is not going to stop because it is making many of the gas companies’ money. Even with good facts/studies that fracking is causing the effects reflected on this paper are true, and
Even though there is a lot of evil in the world, People try to overcome that evil by helping other people in need, such as helping the people in Haiti’s natural disaster. There are also a lot of people in the world that like to bring evil, such as committing murders and bringing pain and suffering to families. What one learns is that people unite and come together after a tragedy, and that good things come after. On January, 12,2010 there was a catastrophe in Haiti. Haiti was absolutely destroyed.