GEOL 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1 : Pacific Plate, Tibetan Plateau, North American Plate
6 Nov 2018
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Most cases: we can predict where flooding is likely to occur from location of floodplain and from mapping extent of recent floods. Determining probability of particular event occurring at particular location within particular time span. Essential for hazard prediction although 10 year flood may occur on average only once every 10 years, it is possible to have several floods of this magnitude in any one year. Forecasting and prediction it is sometimes possible to accurately predict when certain natural events will occur. Hydrologists usually can predict when river will reach particular flood stage or water level it means we should be prepared for the event. Izmit, turkey earthquakes in 1999: killed more than 17 000 people near heavily populated area. Industrial revolution: growth rates increased another 10 times 6 billion in 2000, 2013: exceeded 7 billion: 1 billion new people in only 13 years.
