GEOL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Disaster, Mass Wasting, Geosphere
Document Summary
If there is inadequate weather conditions, this may be the cause for many natural disasters. 85% of people in port-au-prince lived in slum conditions. Poor conditions lead to 190,000 destroyed or damaged homes. 2millions homeless with poor sanitation and poor water quality catastrophe was clear: heavy human development. Land is prone to flooding and mass wasting. Vegetation plays a role in our natural disasters topic. Experiences of large, costly, and deadly natural hazards since 1995-call for investigation and mitigation. Deadliest tsunami are caused by earthquake in the indian ocean. Tsunami in japan caused by largest and costliest earthquake in history. Catastrophic flooding in different areas of the world. It is also important to investigate the causes: Physical, chemical, and biological ways in which events affect earth"s surface. Internal processes come from forces within the earth. External processes due to forces on earth"s surface. Due to plate movements, new rocks form, and other rocks become magma or recycled.
