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Ann Smith

BP Spills Coffee - YouTube - 5 views

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bp Oil Spill Responses

shared by Ann Smith on 07 Dec 12 - Cached
  • Ann Smith on 07 Dec 12
     
    This is a hilarious spoof of the responses to the BP oil spill. Good for a plenary activity on responses to a human induced disaster
Matt Podbury

Visualizing the BP Oil Spill - 1 views

www.ifitweremyhome.com/...bp

Human hazard Disasters

shared by Matt Podbury on 17 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Matt Podbury on 17 Sep 12
     
    Nice little interactive tool to show the spread of the spill compared to your location ...
Richard Allaway

Mount Pinatubo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Mount_Pinatubo

ib_geog2009 hazards vulnerability

shared by Richard Allaway on 10 Jan 10 - Cached
  • hunter-gathering Aeta
  • Aetas living near Pinatubo worship a god named Apo Mallari who lives at the peak. According to them, he caused the 1991 eruption because of displeasure toward illegal loggers and Philippine National Oil Company executives who have drilled for geothermal heat into the mountain. Some of the Aetas stayed on the mountainside hiding in caves; only three people survived.
  • Many of the Aeta who lived on the slopes of the volcano left their villages of their own volition when the first explosions began in April, gathering in a village about 12 km from the summit. They moved to increasingly distant villages as the eruptions escalated, with some Aeta moving up to nine times in the two months preceding the cataclysmic eruption.
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  • The Aeta people were the hardest hit by the eruption. The total destruction of many villages by pyroclasts and lahar deposits meant that many Aeta were unable to return to their former way of life. After the areas surrounding the volcano were declared safe to return to, those whose villages had not been destroyed moved back, but most people moved instead to government-organized resettlement areas. Conditions on these were poor, with each family receiving only small plots of land, which were not ideal for growing crops. Many Aeta found casual labor working for lowland farmers, and overall Aeta society became much more fragmented, and reliant on and integrated with lowland culture.
Matt Podbury

BBC News - Gulf of Mexico oil rig spill seen from the air - 3 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8645938.stm

Human induced hazard

shared by Matt Podbury on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Matt Podbury on 27 Apr 10
     
    Human Induced
Richard Allaway

Dispatch from Haiti | FP Passport - 0 views

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haiti case study hazards earthquakes ib_geog2009 response

shared by Richard Allaway on 03 May 10 - Cached
  • After the earthquake demolished their houses, most of them were able to drag some of their rice, oil, or crackers out of the rubble. They all take a certain pride in the fact that they are now sharing what they have equally among themselves. "We are living communally," says Shelove Lindor, a thoughtful man in glasses. "We are helping one another."
  • In the rough, hilly neighborhood of Delmas, women sell carrots and okra brought in from the nearby countryside.
  • Residents have piled up their garbage in a ravine and are burning it because, one woman explains to me, "it could be bad for the health" to have so much garbage on the street
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

shared by Gemma Archer on 11 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • 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,
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