NATURAL HAZARDS e.g earthquakes and volcanoes

Can be fun to study but not funny to experience in the real world.

A crater in a salt marsh in the Indian desert state of Gujarat after an earthquake in 2001.

A NATURAL EVENT here – why?

An INDIRECT IMPACT

On people

A HAZARD here

Japan - Tsunami 2011 – after an earthquake occurred offshore

Earthquake victims reach for food from a truck at the outskirts of Bhuj on January 31, 2001

LONGER TERM EFFECTS on people – cold, hunger, lack of hygiene or medical care. (HAZARDS)

Divyesh Mansukh Lal weeps after placing his 45-day-old nephew Shiv Kumar on the funeral pyre.

PSYCHO-SOCIAL IMPACT

and LONGER TERM (HAZARD)

GEOLOGICAL HAZARD

Tsunami

GEOMORPHOLOGICAL HAZARD

Landslide,

Avalanche

Florida flights halted ahead of hurricane 8.25AM, Fri Sep 3 2004Flights from the UK to Florida have been cancelled as Hurricane Frances bears down on the state

ATMOSPHERIC HAZARD

Hurricanes

BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS

e.g. crocodile attack.

plague

The symptoms were enlarged and inflamed lymph nodes (around arm pits, neck and groin).

We will mainly study volcanic hazards.

Nevada del Ruiz

We will study:

•The nature, causes and effects of volcanic activity

• where volcanoes are found in the world

• the link between volcanoes and Plate Boundaries

• how humans respond to volcanic hazards. (see picture!)Iceland: the country is Europe's biggest banana grower!

How will your work be marked?

• Acknowledgment marking – checking that the work has been completed.

• Knowledge exercises/tests – Wrong or right.

• Quality teacher marking – identifies

Strengths (S); Target (T); Next step (N).

• Quality marking by other students in the class or as a group.

S = part of your work that was successful (Strength) 

T = part of your work that was not successful (Target for improvement) 

N = what you need to do to improve (Next step in learning)