Natural Hazard Research Task - Earthquakes

Social impacts –

1.      1.   Stress placed on families and people of losing people close to you

2.         2.    The destruction of schools, this will stop children and teenagers to going to school

3.         3.  Destruction of hospitals will make any bad injuries unhealable

4.         4.  he worries of finding another job because your old job got destroyed by the earthquake

5.         5.  Homelessness. You need to find people shelter

Insurance Companies –

During and after an earthquake insurance companies will need to pay insurance to pay for the damage of the earthquake. They also need to reassess the rates of the insurance so they will probably go up. Also they will need to go to the houses and assess the damage of the house and decide whether that the house is insured for the amount of damage. They will also need to go to the houses and see how the land is and see if it is safe enough to live in and if it’s not they will not insure them.

2.1

1. a natural disaster is the effect on a natural hazard

2. a natural disaster is the effect the natural hazard makes

3. those related to weather and climate factors and those related to movements in the earth’s crust

4. cat. 1 – drought, flood, heatwaves, bushfires, strong winds, storms, tropical cyclones and tornadoes
    cat. 2 – landslides, earth tremors, earthquakes and tsunamis

5. because more people are affected

6. less money  to spend locally and costing farmers thousands of dollars through the loos of crops

7. social impacts (loss of life), economic impacts (damage to industry), environmental impacts (death and injury of wildlife)

8. more of the Australian continent is settled exposing communities to greater range of treats

9. it provides valuable information to various organisations and communities as they plan to deal with the impacts of natural hazards

10. a) tropical cyclone, flood and bushfire
       b) heatwaves

11. a) you can see what will cost more
      b)you can get ready for it
      c) you can prepare for damage
      d) you can prepare for paying insureance