... factors will affect this and development is not the only factor in this investigation. The following subheadings will explain more thoroughly what affects the amounts of deaths caused by an earthquake. Health MEDC's (More Economically Developed Countries) have far better medical resources ...

... water leading to sudden pressure changes. The impact depends on many factors strength of the earthquake, wealth of country ect. If the earthquake is high on the Richter scale then it has more of an impact. A shallow focus will cause more ...

... as if they were human beings. They all work together as a team. This is one of the main types of workers that countries all over the world are trying to recruit. All this has happen despite the incident in ...

... impacts of natural hazards. Typically, LEDCs are seen to experience hazards with impacts considered worse than those in many MEDCs, even from the same hazard type. This is partly due to the fact that LEDCs often do not have the ...

... affected in the aftermath of the event. This can include immediate cost of having to provide shelter to the homeless to the more long term costs of rebuilding much of a city which was the case in Kobe when $20 ...

... it finds its way up to the surface through weaknesses in the Earth's Crust. A lot of gas build-up occurs as the molten Mantle rock (also known as Magma) nears the surface. Along the edges of each tectonic plate, volcanoes ...

... a hazard or is it only deemed hazardous if disaster occurs. For the event to be deemed a hazard there must also be human involvement, otherwise it is classified as a natural phenomena- a volcano erupting which causes no damage ...

... fail * Earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 and greater have been known to trigger landslides * Volcanic eruptions produce loose ash deposits, heavy rain, and debris flows. * Excess weight from accumulation of rain or snow, piling of rock or ore, from ...

... and a large modern port, which handles millions of tonnes of trade each year. When? At 5:46am (while many citizens were still asleep) on the 17th of January, 1995 the huge earthquake struck measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale. It was Japans ...

... roofs. If the ashful is really heavy it can make it impossible to breathe. Lava flows are almost always too slow to run over people, but they can certainly run over houses, roads, and any other structures. These two features ...

... Rain over winter and spring was very low, and summer rainfall for Victoria was up to 75% less than in other years. Low levels of rain meant that there was little moisture in the soil and water supplies in many ...

... on the Nimitz Freeway, where a double-decker section of the freeway collapsed, crushing the cars on the lower deck. As well as damage to the Nimitz Freeway, a 15 metre section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge also collapsed, causing ...

... emerged and climbed as high as 20,000 feet. In April a slight lull ensued, but the volcanologists remained pessimistic. Then, in early May the Northern flank of the mountain bulged, and the summit rose by 500 feet. On the ...

... example of this is the mid - Atlantic ridge which was formed as the American plate and the Eurasian plate moved away from each other, pulled by diverging convection currents in the upper mantle. As the plates move apart, faults ...

... accident happening. A hazard is something that could or would cause us harm. A risk is where an activity has the potential to do us damage. A risk assessment is where you assess the risk of an activity. Every workplace has ...

... potential to do us damage. A risk assessment is where you assess the risk of an activity. Every workplace has a Health and Safety representative who has to carry out risk assessments to keep the employees safe. In law, health ...

... suggested by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Convection currents is how heat moves in liquids. We find convection currents inside the moho but we can also find convection currents in a pot of boilling water. Convection currents are circles of heat ...

... in the Kobe quake were in the older part of Kobe, many of the buildings in the older part of the town where destroyed due to their heavy roofing and structural defaults caused by aging. So as you can see ...

... buildings and an oil refinery at Izmit. It destroyed anything in its path that was above the gas pipes. Electricity and water supplies were cut off in 8 Turkish cities, causing people to dehydrate and later when it got dark ...

... in 1906, killing 700. Types of Earthquakes All earthquakes may be classified as one of three types, tectonic, volcanic or artificial (human inflicted). Tectonic Tectonic earthquakes are caused by movements of the plates which make up the crust of the earth. These earthquakes usually ...

... been opened. Some had to live in tents, BUT at night it dropped below freezing point! Kobe finally managed to get their Electricity restored on January 23rd, Water service on the 31st March and Gas 11 days later in April. ...

... exposed. The rock is called magma while it's inside the earth and lava once it comes out of the volcano. (The fragments of volcanic rock and lava in an eruption are also referred to as tephra.) Lava's basic components are ...

... performs as well or better as an insulator of high-temperature electrical conductors. Most respirable asbestos fibres are invisible to the unaided human eye because their size is about 3.0-20.0 µm in length and can be as thin as 0.01 µm. Fibres ...

... by natural hazards and they affected a further 820 million people. They have also cost the global economy an estimated US $40 billion in losses and US $15 billion in relief and rehabilitation. Natural hazards claim more lives in poorer countries ...

... the greater its impact will be. There are different types of classifying hazards, this has raised the question of how suitable these classifications are, their advantages and disadvantaged and if they should be classified in this way. However, classifications help us ...