A2 Event profile of Hazards work: Unit 4





Tectonic hazards can be described in terms of their frequency, magnitude, duration and areal extent. Use the following links to complete the worksheet:

Earthquake scales

Richter Scale

Mercalli Scale

Magnitude calculator

Volcanic explosivity index

VEI

Frequency and magnitude

Frequency

Last hour / day / week

 

Tsunami management

How do you protect against tsunami?
NOAA tsunami forecasting
DART buoys
Pacific tsunami warning centre - FAQ
Lessons learnt from Japanese tsunami - Homeland Security
Japan's earthquake protection
Can you tsunami proof a country?
Sea walls offer little protection

Management and response to Christchurch earthquake

Video explaining how seisometers work to locate an earthquake
Video about predicting earthquakes and aftershocks

GNS monitoring of earthquakes

Describe and explain the research and consultancy offered by GNS

GNS monitoring of earthquakes II
GNS monitoring of earthquakes III

Describe in detail the work being done to monitor the deformation of NZ. Include an explanation of ‘continuous GPS’

Rapid response seismic team

Describe how the rapid response seismic team responded to the Christchurch earthquake

Earthquake insurance cover
Who are EQC?
Describe how their insurance policy works

GetThru.gov
Briefly describe the safety information offered by the NZ government in an earthquake

Haiti earthquake response II

One year on - BBC

One year on 2 - BBC

Cholera outbreak - BBC

Rubble - BBC

Human Development Indicators - Haiti

Haiti - one year on BBC articles

Progress of NGOs in Haiti - Guardian

Haiti earthquake response

10 lessons from Haiti
Has aid helped? - DEC
NY Times

BBC Horizon - why can we not predict earthquakes?

UVI Unit 4 - watch this in the holidays (before 4 April...)

Event profiles

Tectonic hazards can be described in terms of their frequency, magnitude, duration and areal extent. Use the following links to complete the worksheet:

Earthquake scales

Richter Scale

Mercalli Scale

Magnitude calculator

Volcanic explosivity index

VEI

Frequency and magnitude

Frequency

Last hour / day / week

Plate tectonics

Use the USGS online text book - This Dynamic Earth to complete the research task.

Java Volcano started erupting last night

Java Volcanic Eruption - hot off the press!

Christchurch earthquake

Video explaining how seisometers work to locate an earthquake
Video about predicting earthquakes and aftershocks

GNS monitoring of earthquakes

Describe and explain the research and consultancy offered by GNS

GNS monitoring of earthquakes II
GNS monitoring of earthquakes III

Describe in detail the work being done to monitor the deformation of NZ. Include an explanation of ‘continuous GPS’

Rapid response seismic team

Describe how the rapid response seismic team responded to the Christchurch earthquake

Earthquake insurance cover
Who are EQC?
Describe how their insurance policy works

GetThru.gov
Briefly describe the safety information offered by the NZ government in an earthquake

Haiti aid

10 lessons from Haiti
Has aid helped? - DEC
NY Times

Event profiles of tectonic hazards

Tectonic hazards can be described in terms of their frequency, magnitude, duration and areal extent. Use the following links to complete the worksheet:

Earthquake scales

Richter Scale

Mercalli Scale

Magnitude calculator

Volcanic explosivity index

VEI

Frequency and magnitude

Frequency

Last hour / day / week

Monitoring Etna

Journey to Etna - video about monitoring the volcano

Collision and conservative margins

San Andreas fault
Formation of the Himalayas
Himalayas animation

Event profiles of hazards

Tectonic hazards can be described in terms of their frequency, magnitude, duration and areal extent. Use the following links to complete the worksheet:

Earthquake scales

Richter Scale

Mercalli Scale

Volcanic explosivity index

VEI

Frequency and magnitude

Frequency

Last hour / day / week

Mt. Nyriangongo, DRC

Article from National Geographic - included images and interactive graphic.

Event profile of hazards

Tectonic hazards can be described in terms of their frequency, magnitude, duration and areal extent. Use the following links to complete the worksheet:

Earthquake scales

Richter Scale

Mercalli Scale

Magnitude calculator

Volcanic explosivity index

VEI

Frequency and magnitude

Frequency

Last hour / day / week

Plate tectonics

Use the USGS online text book - This Dynamic Earth to complete the research task.

Philippines verging on disaster

The AS Unit 1 course has a compulsory case study which needs to be researched: the Philippines as a disaster hotspot. Look at the following links when researching the topic...

A good site with maps of various hazard risks can be accessed here.

The PHIVOLCS website has some general information here.

This report is very comprehensive, and you will have to dig around a bit, selecting the most relevant data, but includes a good overview (pp. 1-2)

Shakin' all over!

Just how free from geophysical and climatic/weather hazards is the UK? We can probably all remember a flooding event, or a storm where there was some damaging winds reported, but how often do these sorts of things occur?

You might like to check out the following websites, to investigate just how prone we are to things like...

earthquakes

floods

tornadoes