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Matt Podbury

ReliefWeb » Document » Evaluating the Haiti Response: Encouraging Improved Sy... - 3 views

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Risk assessment minimizing hazard response haiti earthquake

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    Haiti Earthquake Response. Risk assessment and hazard response.
Matt Podbury

Hurricane Katrina Adjustments & Responses - 3 views

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Adjustments Responses ib_geog2009 hurricanes

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    Hurricane Katrina Adjustments & Responses
Matt Podbury

Haiti earthquake - Adjustments and Responses (Correct Ver) - 2 views

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ib_geog2009 Adjustments Responses earthquakes

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    Haiti earthquake - Adjustments and Responses
Charlotte Lemaitre

Taiwan's leader takes blame for typhoon response - CNN.com - 0 views

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IB A2 Hazards Disasters Taiwan Typhoon blame President

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    Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou said Sunday he accepts responsibility for the government's slow response after Typhoon Morakot slammed into the island killing at more than 120 people and unleashing floods, mudslides and misery.
Matt Podbury

Adjustments and Responses to Japan Earthquake - 2 views

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Adjustments earthquakes

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    Adjustments and Responses to Japan Earthquake
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Chernobyl adjustments and responses - 2 views

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Adjustments Human hazard

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    Chernobyl adjustments and responses
Matt Podbury

Emergency Response Team - EPDM - 2 views

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short medium long term response

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    Short, Medium and Long Term Responses to Hazards.
Ann Smith

BP Spills Coffee - YouTube - 5 views

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bp Oil Spill Responses

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    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

Disasters: The Differing Response to the Australian and Pakistan Floods -... - StumbleUpon - 2 views

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    A Tale of Two Floods Shows the Disaster Gap Between Rich and Poor Pakistan and Australia
Gemma Archer

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

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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

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Amazo... - 0 views

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ib_geog2009 hurricanes Hazards and disasters Vulnerability Disasters

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    Book examines in a brilliant narrative the long-term and short-term causes, successful and unsuccessful responses to Hurricane Katrina along the U. S. Gulf Coast and in New Orleans.  Include a special focus on especially vulnerable populations. [Submitted by John Jordan]
Matt Podbury

Minor earthquake hits New Jersey days after Hurricane Sandy: Can a hurricane cause an e... - 2 views

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ib_geog2009 earthquakes volcanoes hurricanes Vulnerability Responses

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    Hurriquake! Mudslami! Volnado!
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