F763 Global Issues: Plate Tectonic Links

The syllabus requires that you study earthquakes and volcanoes to illustrate the following:

• The tectonic pocesses involved in creating hazards
• The scale and types of Impacts (SEEC Formula)
• Primary (destruction, casualties, landslides, fires) and secondary impacts (disease, infra-structure problems, resettlement)
• The human response in both the short term (emergency response) and long term (planning and management)

The following links will be updated to help you in your research. Keep checking the comments for any updates or extra information:

Geo-resources Excellent collection of websites with a short description of each.
USGS Volcanoes Latest updates on Current US Volcanoes, including webcams)
Volcano Photos Images and information on volcanoes around the world
MTU Volcanoes Includes volcanic mitigation
USGS Earthquake Hazards Information on the latest earthquakes
British Earthquakes
San Francisco Preperation How the American city prepares the population to survive a 'quake
San Francisco 1989

UK Flooding

BBC Report: Cockermouth. Over 200 people in the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth had to be rescued due to flooding caused by the heavy rains. Read the report from the BBC to see the rescue effort.

UK Extreme weather

Year 8: Use the following web-links to make your report/presentation:

UK Weather Statistics

Types of severe weather

Pictures of Extreme UK weather

Birmingham Tornado

Snowfall Extremes

Britain's worst storms

Bangladesh Flooding

Year 12: Try these links for helping to add detail to your Bangladesh Report:

-Environment Statistics

-Bangladesh Disaster Statistics

Llandudno 2009

A bit late but here are a few pictures from the Llandudno trip on Friday 11th September. Fond memories

Year 13 Flood Mitigation

The following websites are to be used for the task set in Monday's lesson: prepare an information sheet on the short-term and long-term responses to Flooding.

www.fema.gov.hazards/floods

www.usgs.gov.hazards/floods (download the file)

Soft-engineering slideshow

UK Environment Agency (v.good, spend some time to search this site, especially 'what we're doing section')

Spend as much time on short-term responses as long-term responses. The UK environment agency has some good information on hard engineering programs. Feel free to expand your research to other websites.

Earthquake Preperation

Year 10 students present their preparing the community schemes....

KHS Geography has 50 members!

Congratulations. Chocolate all-round....