Paper 1 Case Studies Statisitcs

NvsC= Nepal vs Christchurch earthquake

International aid NvsC

Nepal: $1 Billion from India and China

Christchurch: $6-7 million international aid

Date of Nepal vs Christchurch Earthquake

Nepal: 25th April 2015

Christchurch: 22nd February 2011

Magnitude N vs C

Nepal: 7.8

Christchurch: 6.3

Deaths N vs C

Nepal: 9,000

Christchurch: 185

Number of Infrastructure Damage N vs C

Nepal: 600k houses damaged or destroyed

Christchurch: 100k houses damaged 10k destroyed

Displacement N vs C

Nepal: 2.8M

Christchurch: 22,00 (temporary accommodation)

Homelessness N vs C

Nepal: 3.5million

Christchurch: 10, 000

Nepal Aftershocks

2 large aftershocks (6.6 & 6.7) —> landslides + rock falls

—> landslide killed 250 (in Ghodatabela)

—> avalanche at Mount Everest killed 17

Cost of infrastructure damage N vs C

Nepal: $10 Billion

Christchurch: $28 billion

Factors affecting effect + responses

• Magnitude

• Topogrophy (terrain, liquifaction, landslides)

• Wealth (education, emergency services)

Beast from the East date

25th February 2018

Cause of Beast from the East

Stratospheric warming disturbed the northern polar jet stream which twisted its direction unexpectedly – allowing cold winds from Russia (the East) to travel as far as the UK.

Social impacts Beast from the East

• 10 deaths

• supermarkets shut down e.g aldi

• 200k went without water

• 100s flights cancelled

• 450+ schools closed e.g name skl

Economic impacts Beast from the East

• supermarkets lost £22 million

• 100s flights cancelled

• cost economy £1 billion per day

• businesses closed

Environmental Impacts Beast from the East

• lows of -12

• 50cm snow

• 61 mph

• red weather warning

• flood warning SW England

• food shortages for food and wildlife

Amazon rainforest statistics general

• 1000 species of bird

• 60,000 species of plants

• 10million species of insect

• 8million km²

• home to 20% of species on Earth

• 3x size of UK worth of land has been destroyed since 1978

Amazon rainforest location

• North of South America

• Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia etc

• Brazil = flat, easy to farm<— high temperatures lots of rainfall

Amazon Rainforest Causes of Deforestation

1.) Subsistence farming (Trans-Amazonia Highway)

• (poor farmers occupy plots to grow food for their families, clearing forest then burning it)

2.) Commercial Farming

• (large scale farming for money)

• 80% of Amazon deforestation due to cattle ranching

3.) Logging

• (cutting down trees for sale as wood)

• 3% of deforestation due to logging

Amazon Rainforest impacts of Deforestation

Economic development

Soil erosion

Climate change