GEV 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake And Tsunami, Richter Magnitude Scale, Indian Australians
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How individual places are different, maintain own characteristics, unique and different. Space: study things through space, how are things connected. Disease, water, trade, people, ideas, culture, oil and natural resources, religion, technology, food, money, media (images in particular), Spatial interactions between places, global interactions (more interconnected than ever before, globalization) Human geography (urban geographers, cultural, economics, population geography) Understanding spatial processes, computer mapping, gis, remote sensing (uses satellite data), Pulling elements from various places to understand prominent issues. Middle/south america, north africa and sw asia, sub-saharen africa, east asia, south pacific, russia/newly independent states, europe, n america, south asia. December 26, 2004, undersea earthquake, one of the largest ever struck indonesia.