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10 Cards in this Set
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HDI |
0.684 (World bank) |
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Front (Term) GDP |
Back (Definition) $870 billion Lower middle income (World bank) |
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Front (Term) Population |
Back (Definition) 250million (World bank) |
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Preparation |
No tsunami warning system Earthquake first warning Only few areas evacuated (Simeulie) Little experience of tsunamis (UNESCO) |
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Plate boundary |
Destructive: Indian subducts bellow Burma (new scientist) |
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Location of epicentre |
Close to populated coast of Sumatra. Near to many 13 LEDCS (New scientist) |
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Magnitude |
Richter scale: 9.1 Mercalli scale: XI (very disasterous) 4th largest ever recorded (New scientist) |
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Environmental impacts |
Crops destroyed Farmland Salinger 8million litres oil escaped Mangroves destroyed Coral reefs destroyed |
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Economic |
Ports ruined Decline in fishing industry Loss of tourism Roads bridge and rail destroyed (bbc bitesize) $7.5billion to reconstruct (New scientist) |
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Social impacts |
226000 killed 500000 injured 150000 died from infectious diseases 1 million unemployed (New scientist) |
