Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Multiple Hazard Zones
- California
- Tectonic Hazards
- Earthquakes
- Conservative plate boundary
- Northridge 1994
- 57 deaths (some not directly
caused by the earthquake)
- 8,700 injured
- 6.7 (Moment Magnitude)
- 4:31am local time
- Aseismic buildings in place after
San Fernando Valley quake in 1971
- Modify vulnerability
- $20 bil damage
- Insurance
- Landslides
- Hydrometeorological Hazards
- Droughts
- 2011-17 Drought
- Causes
- Human
- High water consumption
- ~360 gallons per person per day
- Climate change
- Increased evaporation
- Physical
- La Nina
- Created area of high pressure
- Increased evaporation
- Effects
- 98% of California affected
- Worst drought in 1,200 years
- 34% less rain than expected
- $550 mil direct cost
- 90% land fallowed
- 1,815 seasonal jobs lost in agricultural industry
- ~4,700 jobs lost in total
- Wildfires
- Vulnerability
- High population density in Los
Angeles and San Francisco
- High economic cost if a disaster occurs
- High capacity to cope
- Philippines
- Tectonic Hazards
- Volcanic eruptions
- Pinatubo 1991
Anlagen:
- Earthquakes
- Landslides
- Exacerbated by deforestation
- 100% country at risk
- 21 events
- 9,580 deaths
- 13,051 injuries
- Hydrometeorological Hazards
- Typhoons
- 241 events
- Average 10 per year
- Haiyan
- 11.5 mil affected
- 544,000 displaced
- 130,000 houses destroyed
- 2,400 deaths
- 3,900 injured
- Hit 4:40am local time
- Cat. 5
- $4.55 bil damage
- Asian Development Bank: $500 mil
in emergency loans, $23 mil in grants
- Shelterbox
- Sent boxes with short term aid
- Tents, blankets, mosquito
nets, tools, stove, cooking
equipment, hats & gloves
- Droughts
- Vulnerability
- Densely populated
- Manila one of the most densely
populated cities in the world
- 40% population below poverty line
- Low capacity to cope