GEOS2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Early Warning System, Thrust Fault, Subduction
2 Jul 2019
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Week 11 lecture 2 a quick geography of asia pacific: natural disasters. Today is about thinking out loud" about hazards that might and do threaten the asia pacific region. Here are no listed references for today you are encouraged to go research for academic material about. Explore some issues that worry regional disaster risk managers. End with an online quiz that you can do in your own time events, hazards and places that specifically interest you. Effects: direct and indirect effects, what environments are they impacting, human, atmosphere, biodiversity. Tectonic settings: 2 subduction zones in this area thrust fault earthquake and tsunami. High population density: majority of hong kong sits about. 30m above sea level (on average) with a population of 7. 3 million: guangzhou: population of 14 million. > # tsunami events in the south china sea. 1950s onwards: emergence of tidal gage data = records movement in sea level, partially accounts for an increase of events + validated events.
