Structure of Earth/Plate Boundaries
What is the name of the most outer layer?
Crust
How often to Earthquakes occur?
Every 2 minutes
What was the magnitude of the Quake?
7
What was the magnitude of the quake?
9
Which layer is the only liquid layer?
Outer Core
How to we measure the strength of an Earthquake?
The Richter Scale
Where was the epicentre of the disaster?
Port-au-Prince
what was the death toll in Japan?
28,000
What is the name of the plate boundary in which two plates are crashing into one another?
Destructive Plate Boundary
What makes earthquakes so dangerous?
No warning; hard to predict; happen so often.
What is it like to live in Haiti? Identify 2 problems they face.
Extreme Poverty; Gang violence; mugging/rapes; homelessness; unemployment; housing unstable; natural disasters.
Japan experienced a triple disaster, What were the three disasters?
Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Disaster
Give an example of a country which sits on a Constructive plate boundary.
Iceland
What is the term given to the hardest hit area?
Epicentre!
Identify 2 impacts of the Haiti earthquake 2010
No government help; no aid for 5 days; no doctors; amputations.
Give two ways in which Japan was prepared for the disaster
Earthquake proof buildings, drills, tsunami walls, cell phone alarms.
What is the name given to the process within the mantle which causes our plates to move?
Convection Currents
Does the strongest earthquake always equal the most deaths?
No. All about money and preparedness.
What type of aid did Haiti rely on? Why?
Long- and short-term aid. Haiti has little funding, lack of military and hospitals.
This was one of the costliest disasters in history, what type of aid did Japan need?
Mainly short-term.