Natural hazards

• Haiti 2010 earthquake

  magnitude 7

  230,000 deaths

  90% Port au Prince destroyed

  1.5 millions homeless

  Philippine aid workers reintroduced cholera

  search and rescue teams led by us troops

  airport and port destroyed

  $11 billion raised globally
• Formation of a hurricane

  >26.5 degrees ocean temp which causes evaporation to occur.

  The air rises , cools , condenses and forms clouds.

  Multiple small storms join together

  The storm starts to spin anticlockwise Because of the coriolis effect.

  74mph storm

  wind blows the storm

  loses energy source and slows down on land
• L’Aquila 2009 earthquake

  magnitude 6.9

  300 deaths

  60,000 homeless

  thousands of building destroyed

  aftershock destroyed hospital

  $1.1 billion damage

  mobiles and siM cards provided

  hotels and tent provided shelter

  aid from italian government and EU

  6 scientists to prison for failing to predict
• Typhoon Haiyan 2013

  category 5 storm (fastest ever)

  their first storm in 131 years

  6m storm surge

  occured in the philippines

  6300 deaths

  6000 homeless

  30,000 fishing boats destroyed

  14 million affected

  $20 billion in damages

  60% of tacloban destroyed

  build back better scheme

  rice seeds given to farmers

  new storm surge and warning systems

  800,000 evacuated

  1 million food parcels distributed in 1st week