EARTHSC 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Continental Crust, Oceanic Crust, Slab Pull
5 May 2016
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Hati had a 7. 0 magnitude earth quake last year- what influences the amount of damage. A person"s weight added to the slope that is near failure. Hazard- the probability that a specific damaging event will occur within a particular period of times. Risk- a function of a hazard- the exposure, vulnerability and the coping capacity. Process- what is the rate, what is the magnitude and what is the extent. Disaster trends- recently there seems to be a lot of natural disasters. Japan tsunami, nepal earthquake, haiti earthquake, hurricane katrina, 2015 heatwave in southern india. The united nations designated the 1990s as the international decade for natural. Those hazards tat have a great impact on human life may not cause the most property damage. Hazards vary greatly in their ability to cause catastrophe. Also influenced by other factors(eg. climate, geology, vegetation, land-use, population) The internal structure of earth can be considered in two fundamental ways: o o.
