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Natural hazards and people.
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Natural Hazards and People (Learn at least two Hazards with examples) MEDCs LEDCs UK and Europe Earth- quakes Kobe, Japan Tuesday 17th Jan 1995 at 5.46 am. 7.2 Richter scale, 20km SW of Kobe. 20 seconds and unexpected. 5500 dead, 310,000 homeless. Death high as in Urban areas of Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto. Destructive boundary between Philippine, Eurasian and Pacific plates. Communications and bullet train damaged. 10 million Yen the cost. Bhuj in Gujurat region of India. 29 Jan 2001. 7.9 RS 8.46am for 45 secs. Over 6000 dead, lack of medical facilities and aid workers. Fault line of Eurasian and African plates ancient collision. Felt over 400 miles away. Epicentre; below Bhuj. Over 100,000 homeless. Secondary effects+ death from hunger, disease, dehydration and lack of aid N/A Volcanic Eruptions Mount St Helens, NW USA 18th May 1980. Subduction of Juan de Fuca under North American plate. 63 died. Mountain height was 2950m now 2560m! Earthquaki in region caused a landslide on...
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