Earthquake case studies 3.1.3 Flashcards
Port au Prince
location, date
Haiti, 2015
Port au Prince
plate boundary
transform plate boundary
friction between the plates built up pressure which was released as an earthquake
North American and Caribbean plates
in the ring of fire
Port au Prince
impacts, effects, hazards
- 5 million people displaced
- $14 billion costs
- 230,000 people died
- 1.5 million homeless
- forced migration
- immense humanitarian crisis
- $13 billion in aid donated
Boxing day tsunami
location, time
In the Indian Ocean 26th December 2004 30m high waves created by underwater seismic activity magnitude 9.1 900 mile stretch of fault line ruptured
Boxing day tsunami
plate boundary
Oceanic Indio-Australian plate subducting the continental Eurasian plate
Boxing day tsunami
hazards, impacts, effects
$15 billion damage costs Impacted 14 countries 228,000 people died in in 14 countries 5 million people effected 1.7 million people left homeless
Nepal earthquake
location, time
City of Kathmandu
2015
aka Gorkha earthquake
Nepal earthquake
plate boundary
Convergent plate boundary
Indian and Eurasian plates
Indian plate subducted
pressure created when the plates locked
Nepal earthquake
hazards, impacts, effects
ground shaking, landslides, rockfalls
7.8 magnitude
600,000 structures in nearby towns destroyed
avalanches in the Himalayas
9000 people died
$10 billion damage to infrastructure, home, agriculture
damage cost almost half of Nepal’s economy
Tohoku earthquake
location, time
2011
Japan
9.1 magnitude
Tohoku earthquake
plate boundary
Pacific plate subducted North American plate
converging
build up of energy from collision of plates caused an earthquake when it was released
Tohoku earthquake
hazards, impacts, effects
Largest earthquake ever in Japan tsunami with 130 foot waves damage to nuclear reactors in the area 20,000 deaths 2,500 people missing 300,000 refugees in the Tohoku region
example of liquefaction
Christchurch earthquakes, NZ
2010
infrastructure collapsed
