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Richard Allaway

Past Volcanic Eruptions in the Auckland Field More Common | Wired Science | Wired.com - 1 views

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Andrew Gilford

Aral: A Dammed Sea | Chloe Dewe Mathews - 1 views

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droughts Hazards and disasters Human hazard

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    In the middle of the vast, arid region between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan lies the Aral Sea, a land-locked body of salt water. Once home to hundreds of species of fish which supported nearby communities for centuries, the sea was almost irreversibly drained during Soviet rule.
Matt Podbury

Emergency Response Team - EPDM - 2 views

ertsarhq.webs.com/epdm.htm

short medium long term response

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    Short, Medium and Long Term Responses to Hazards.
Matt Podbury

BBC News - Tsunami alerts 'confuse public', says Noaa scientist - 4 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8662298.stm

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    Hazard prediction - Tsunami
Gemma Archer

BBC News - Tsunami hits north-eastern Japan after massive quake - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-asia-pacific-12709598

Hazards and disasters earthquakes tsunami ib_geog2009 Responses Characteristics of hazards Disasters Vulnerability

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  • cars, ships and even buildings being swept away by a vast wall of water
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      primary effects
  • sparked fires in several areas including Tokyo
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      secondary effects
  • A tsunami warning was extended across the Pacific to include the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hawaii, the Pacific coast of Russia and North and South America.
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      responses
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  • Strong waves hit Japan's Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, officials said, damaging dozens of coastal communities. Kyodo news agency said a 10-metre wave (33ft) struck the port of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture.
  • massive surge of debris-filled water sweeping away buildings, cars and ships and reaching far inland.
  • Motorists could be seen trying to speed away from the wall of water.
  • Farmland around Sendai was submerged and the waves pushed cars across the runway of the city's airport.
  • Kyodo said at least 15 people had been killed in the earthquake and tsunami. It was believed the death toll could rise significantly.
  • The earthquake also triggered a number of fires, including one at an oil refinery in Ichihara city in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo, engulfing storage tanks.
  • here were reports of about 20 people injured in Tokyo after the roof of a hall collapsed on to a graduation ceremony.
  • Residents and workers in Tokyo rushed out of apartment buildings and office blocks and gathered in parks and open spaces as aftershocks continued to hit.
  • In central Tokyo, Jeffrey Balanag said he was stuck in his office in the Shiodome Sumitomo building because the elevators had stopped working.
  • Bullet train services to northern Japan were halted, rapid transit in Tokyo was suspended and some nuclear power plants automatically shut down.
  • Prime Minister Naoto Kan
  • televised address,
Richard Allaway

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake Facts and Statistics Graphs - 0 views

neic.usgs.gov/...graphs.html

ib_geog2009 hazards earthquakes

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    Earthquake frequency graphs
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