Tectonics
Volcanoes
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Earthquake on varying levels of wealth
Guatemala
Hawaii
Central America, Pennisular
Destructive plate boundary coccus plate sub ducting under Caribbean
Explosive over short scale
Chain island in pacific
Hot spot under pacific plate (oceanic)
effusive eruptions slow and long term
Kileua
20 square km 0.2% has been covered in lava
Tallest kilauea ash plume has reached more than 9km into the air.
2000 residents evacuated
no deaths just one injury
82 homes destroyed
Fuego
100 people confirmed killed
Eruption promted evacuation 3,100 people
Ashfall forced shutdown of international airport
Nearly 300 injured and 200 missing
Japan - a developed country
preparedness
Response
Impacts
good building regulations
low levels corruption
well developed disaster plan e.g areas vulnerable to tsunami 10m sea wall, offices and homes disaster kit
Early warning system predicted 1 minute in advance
Tsunami impacted nuclear power plant
19848 deaths and missing
130,927 made homeless
economic loss US$125.6 billion
Haiti Low income country
Physical factors
Impact
Response
Government responded within 24 hours
radio, tv swithced to eathquake coverage
Japan quickly accepted recovery and rescue from over 20 countries
Located on fault between North America and Caribbean plate
Shallow focus increased ground shaking
Liquefaction on looser soil caused ground to sink
Epicentre only 24km from port-au-prince most densly populated city
5 years later still recovering
By 2012 80,000 Haititan still living in temporary homes
Been some improvements in roads, schools and health statistics improved
China- Newly emerging economy