Tectonics Case Studies

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Japan 2011:

  • 9.0 Magnitude

  • Waves up to 40

  • 20,000 deaths

  • $235Bn damages

  • 160,000 displaced from Fukushima

  • HIC

  • 100,000 troops deployed within 24 hrs

  • $300Bn rebuilding budget

  • Sea walls overtopped

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Haiti 2010

  • 7.0 Magnitude

  • 230,000 deaths

  • 1.5m homeless

  • $7Bn damages

  • LIC (0.449 HDI)

  • 105,000 buildings collapsed

  • Cholera from UN peacekeepers killed 10,000 more

  • 50% of rubble cleared after 2 years

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Iceland 2010

  • VEI 4

  • 0 deaths

  • $2.6Bn lost in the aviation industry

  • Airspace closed for 6 days

  • Ash cloud reached 9km

  • HIC (0.927 HDI)

  • 800 people evacuated

  • Tourism boom afterwards

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Indian Ocean 2004

  • 9.1 magnitude tsunami

  • 230,000 deaths from 14 countries

  • 1.7m homeless

  • $10Bn damages

  • Mostly hit indonesia (0.621 HDI)

  • Seabed uplifted 20m vertically

  • No warning system

  • Earths orbit altered by 2.68 microseconds

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Sichuan 2008

  • 7.9 mangitude

  • 87,000 deaths

  • 5000+ school children died

  • 5m homeless

  • $150Bn damages

  • HDI 0.678 (Emerging)

  • 100,000 troops deployed

  • $150Bn invested in rebuilding towns

  • Protests over poor school safety

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Montserrat 1995

  • VEI 2

  • 0 deaths from the monitoring system

  • Volcano observatory established 1995

  • Southern halfof the island declared off-limits

  • 60% of the island made uninhabitable since then

  • £1Bn damages

  • First major activity in 300 years

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Bohol 2013

  • 7.3 magnitude

  • 222 deaths

  • 400,000 displaced

  • 4.5k aftershocks

  • Haiyan struck 3 weeks later (multi-hazard zone)

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Kashmir 2005

  • 7.6 magnitude

  • 87,000 deaths

  • 3.5m homeless

  • LIC (0..477 HDI)

  • 17,000 children died in schools

  • Remote villages cut off

  • Helicopter only access

  • Disaster management authority created as a result

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STRUCTURE:

  • Introduction to directly answer the question that makes it sound complexed & evaluative

  • P1 - Strongest point for 1 side, PE(case study)L

  • P2 - Strongest point for the other side with a contrastic case study

  • P3 - Further developed point that is an outlier to show why it is complex

  • Conclusion for a clear judgement