1. What is the population of the Phillipines?
2. What is its capital and the population of the capital?
3. What is the population density?
4. What is the GDP per capita figure of the Phillipines?
5. How many islands is the nation made up from?
6. Give a detailed account of the 1991 Pinatubo eruption (inc. name of plates, diagram, death toll, reference to ash and lahars etc.)
7. Find examples of the following hazards in the Phillipnes inc., where possible, death tolls, dates, causes etc.:

• a tsumani
• a cyclone
• a lahar
• a landslide
• an earthquake

Resources:

Background

1.   Use the following answers to your video questions to write a brief background to the earthquake: 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13.

2.   Open the image attached at the base of this post (San Andreas.jpg) Read the text, then copy the two diagrams into your notes, along with all the labels. 

Damage

1.   How much damage was caused by the earthquake (V)

2.   Why was there little damage near the epicentre? (H/O)

3.   Where was the worst damage in San Francisco? (V q. 16)

4.   Why? (V q. 16)

5.   What happened to the viaducts and bridge structures (include death toll)? (H/O V q. 26)

Prediction/Prevention

1.   What is the seismic gap theory? (H/O, V q. 22)

2.   To what extent were the building codes set up by the authorities a success? (H/O)

3.   Why was the damage so severe in the Marina District of San Francisco? (H/O)

Your task is to devise a hot spot map of a selection of major hazards in California. The map should include the locations of:

• A river flood
• A smog event
• A landslide
• A drought

Try to refer to the most recent examples possible. For each location, when you click on the dot the user should be able to:

•  Access facts and figures about the hazard, including the date and time
• Get a detailed summary of how and why the hazard occurred, including diagrams where appropriate
• See YouTube^TM or Google Video footage as appropriate

TJJ