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Richard Allaway

definitions_en.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that causes serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, material, economic and/or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own level of resources
Matt Podbury

BBC News - Lorca earthquake 'caused by groundwater extraction' - 1 views

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    Lorca earthquake 'caused by groundwater extraction' - Interesting case study that potentially implicates human activity as a reason for the 2011 Spanish earthquake. 
Roger Groenink

BBC News - Indonesian mud volcano flow 'to last 26 years' - 0 views

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    It is suggested that a mud "volcano" in Indonesia, expected to flow for 26 years, was caused by drilling. Although not sufficient for a case study, it could be used as an example of a human-induced hazard.
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    It is suggested that a mud "volcano" in Indonesia, expected to flow for 26 years, was caused by drilling. Although not sufficient for a case study, it could be used as an example of a human-induced hazard.
Charlotte Lemaitre

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Taiwan appeals for foreign help - 0 views

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    Taiwan has appealed for international technical assistance to help rescue more than 2,000 people stranded after Typhoon Morakot caused major mudslides
Richard Allaway

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

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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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    Hurriquake! Mudslami! Volnado!
Ian Gabrielson

Humans to blame for scale of devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan, say experts | South ... - 1 views

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    ""You have a very intense event hitting a very susceptible part of the world. It's that combination of nature and man," said MIT tropical meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel. "If one of those ingredients were missing, you wouldn't have a disaster.""
Richard Allaway

Mount Pinatubo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • 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.
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