PHYSICAL CASE STUDIES

Question 1

TYPHOON HAIYAN short term impacts:

Answer 1

NOVEMBER 2013
-estimated 6400 deaths
-4.1million people made homeless
-90% of TACLOBAN destroyed
-electricity supply down for 6 weeks
-33 million coconut trees destroyed

Question 2

TYPHOON HAIYAN long term impacts:

Answer 2

-total cost of 5.8 billion US DOLARS
-‘build back better’ launched in 2014, only 15 of target homes had been achieved in 3 years
-storm surge warning system
-4 million people still in temporary shelters
-6 months later, clean water still limited

Question 3

NEPAL EARTHQUAKE short term:

Answer 3

25th April 2015
-7.8 richter
-killed 9000, 23000 injured
-90% tourist bookings cancelled immediately, loosing 600 million
-1.4 million needed food assistance

Question 4

NEPAL earthquake long term:

Question 5

NEPAL immediate responses:

Answer 5

-half a million tents to provide shelter
-field hospitals
-GIS tools were implemented, and drones to help
-rescue helicopters

Answer 6

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Question 7

HOLDERNESS COAST-coastal management

Answer 7

BRIDLINGTON- 4.7km sea wall
HORNSEA- 5.2 mil on groynes
MAPPLETON- rip rap 2 mil + beach nourishment
SPURN HEAD- groynes
-fastest eroding coastline in the UK
-losing 18m each year
-waves have high energy due to long fetch

Question 8

KILAUEA-impact

Answer 8

-4 May 2018
-hotspot of Big ISalnd, HAWAII
-6.9 magnitude
-ash thrown 9000 meters in the air
-destroyed Green Lake
-devastated Leilani Estates
-700 houses were destroyed
-roads were blocked by lava

Question 9

KILUAEA-response

Answer 9

-1700 Leilani Estate residents were evacuated
-10,000 people were accommodated in evacuation centres

Question 10

FUEGO- impact

Answer 10

-3 June 2018
-GUATEMALA
-3763 metre volcano
-10 schools were closed
-COCOS-Caribbean boundary
-Guatemala airport closed
-pyroclastic flows destructed that people were not ready for
-110 killed, 200 missing
-1.7 million affected

Question 11

FUEGO-responses

Answer 11

-Red Cross + rescue workers
-3000 housed in temporary shelters
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