North America Multi H Flashcards
Northridge impacts ?
60 killed
9000 injured
20,000 homeless
2 aftershocks
brittle wooden structure
$21bn damages
Northridge background ?
Jan 1994
4:30AM public holiday
blind thrust fault
sour then California
Mount St. Helens impacts ?
no tourism
57 deaths
198 people rescued
destructive plate boundary
250 homes destroyed
47 bridges destroyed
all fauna/flora dead in 25km radius
Mount St. Helens background ?
May 1980 Washington State
Worst eruption in US history
millions of trees were replanted
Yellowstone Impacts ? (if explodes)
suffering in food supplies
destroy 10,000km sq
87,000 deaths
15cm of ash would cover buildings
lahars
change in global climates
Yellowstone background ?
Supervolcano
ground bulging by 70cm
most recent eruption 630,000 years ago
Hurricane Sandy impacts ?
$71bn damages
hazard complacency in NYC and NJ
300 deaths
600,000 buildings damaged
70% of crops in Haiti damaged
2 million people without electricity
NYC subway flooded
Hurricane Sandy background ?
WC130J plane
US relief bill of $48bn
12-12-12 fundraiser - $30mn
Haiti Earthquake impacts ?
Jan 2010
300,000 deaths
2 million homeless
liquefaction
parliament and police station destroyed
5000 schools destroyed
multiple aftershocks
1500 deaths due to Cholera
Haiti Earthquake background ?
shallow earthquake
$1.1bn raised only 2% given to Haiti
Jan 2010
Alberta impacts ?
May 2016
90,000 displaced
ash polluted water, making it unsanitary and killing fish
2400 buildings destroyed
Fort McMurray exclusion zone
$9bn damages
2500 workers evacuated in Shell Canada oil refinery
Fort McMurray International airport shutdown
pollution visible in the Gulf Coast
Alberta background
nicknamed the beast
unknown cause of fire
May 2016
Honourable mentions?
Hawaii Hotspot
San Andreas Fault - 99.7% chance of earthquake
2018 California wildfires
El Niño
