Earth hazards Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Cause of the Kashmir earthquake | thrust fault along Indus Kohistan Seismic Zone (continent-continent collision between Indo-Australian and Eurasian Plates) |
Date of the Kashmir earthquake | 8 October 2005 |
Magnitude of the Kashmir earthquake | 7.6 |
Epicentre and depth of the Kashmir earthquake | close to town of Muzaffarabad, 10km deep |
No. of deaths from the Kashmir earthquake | over 100,000 |
No. of people displaced by the Kashmir earthquake | 3 million |
Cost of the Kashmir earthquake | US$5 billion |
Cause of the Haiti earthquake | Enriquillo Fault (strike slip fault), which marks northern edge of Caribbean Plate |
Date of the Haiti earthquake | 12 January 2010 |
Magnitude of the Haiti earthquake | 7.0 |
Epicentre and depth of the Haiti earthquake | Leogane (15km south-west of Port-au-Prince), 13km deep |
No. of deaths from the Haiti earthquake | over 300,000 |
No. of people displaced by the Haiti earthquake | 2.3 million |
Cost of the Haiti earthquake | US$7.8 billion (120% of Haiti’s GDP) |
Cause of the Sendai earthquake | subduction of Pacific Plate (oceanic) below Okhotsk Plate (continental) - movement of 10m over a 400km length of fault |
Date of the Sendai earthquake | 11 March 2011 |
Magnitude of the Sendai earthquake | 9.0 |
Epicentre and depth of the Sendai earthquake | 72km off coast of Sendai, 24km deep |
No. of deaths from the Sendai earthquake | around 20,000 |
No. of people displaced by the Sendai earthquake | 340,000 |
Cost of the Sendai earthquake | over $300 billion |
Cause of Montserrat volcanic activity | subduction of North American Plate beneath Caribbean Plate (both oceanic) |
Date of Montserrat volcanic activity | started in July 1995, peaked in 1997 |
No. of deaths from Montserrat volcanic activity | 19 killed in 1997, when volcanic activity peaked |
Decrease in Montserrat’s population | from over 10,500 in 1990 to 6,400 in 2000 |
Cause of Eyjafjallajökull eruption | Iceland sits astride Mid Atlantic Ridge – divergent plate boundary between North American and Eurasian Plates |
Date of Eyjafjallajökull eruption | April 14th – May 2010 |
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