Discuss the Relationship Between the Nature of Tectonic Hazards and Human Responses to Them.
Tectonic Activity and Hazards
Discuss the relationship between the nature of tectonic hazards and human responses to them.
The Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991 is an example of a tectonic hazard. The response to this hazard will be different to the response in Iceland to the Mount Pelee eruption. The human responses to tectonic hazards are affected by several different factors: the income level of the location, the frequency, the magnitude, the population density of the area the hazard takes place and the type of hazard itself. This report is going to examine a range of tectonic hazards and the human responses to them. A response could be the level of planning for such hazard, aid after the disaster, or the relief given or purely doing nothing. This will vary depending on the type of tectonic hazard. For this purpose a tectonic hazard is a physical occurrence resulting from the movement or deformation of the earth’s crust, this can be volcanoes, earthquakes or tsunamis. After researching this topic I found several useful sources. One of my ain sources is the Edexcel A2 Geography text book by Dunn et al, I found this to be very useful because it included factual relevant information which is very reliable. Another source I found very useful was http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/04/forcesofnature/interactive/ this is a reliable source because it is peer assessed and national geographic is a well known reliable source. The USGS publications was found to be very useful in finding effects of the disasters and how it affected the people. The Geo-files were another very useful source I used, this was also good for finding out the effects hazards had on people, but also the effects they had on the environment, and how these hazards were caused. I found some of my data from the Wikipedia website, however this is not as reliable as it is not peer assessed and can be edited by anyone, making me more cautious of its data and checking it where I could.
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Discuss the relationship between the nature of tectonic hazards and human responses to them.
The Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991 is an example of a tectonic hazard. The response to this hazard will be different to the response in Iceland to the Mount Pelee eruption. The human responses to tectonic hazards are affected by several different factors: the income level of the location, the frequency, the magnitude, the population density of the area the hazard takes place and the type of hazard itself. This report is going to examine a range of tectonic hazards and the human responses to them. A response could be the level of planning for such hazard, aid after the disaster, or the relief given or purely doing nothing. This will vary depending on the type of tectonic hazard. For this purpose a tectonic hazard is a physical occurrence resulting from the movement or deformation of the earth’s crust, this can be volcanoes, earthquakes or tsunamis. After researching this topic I found several useful sources. One of my ain sources is the Edexcel A2 Geography text book by Dunn et al, I found this to be very useful because it included factual relevant information which is very reliable. Another source I found very useful was http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/04/forcesofnature/interactive/ this is a reliable source because it is peer assessed and national geographic is a well known reliable source. The USGS publications was found to be very useful in finding effects of the disasters and how it affected the people. The Geo-files were another very useful source I used, this was also good for finding out the effects hazards had on people, but also the effects they had on the environment, and how these hazards were caused. I found some of my data from the Wikipedia website, however this is not as reliable as it is not peer assessed and can be edited by anyone, making me more cautious of its data and checking it where I could.
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