To understand how the impacts of tectonic hazards differ in MEDCs and LEDCs

Describe what you think is happening in this photo

What questions do you have for this girl?

Look at the following photos and think about the effects from the Haiti earthquake

• There are generally more deaths in LEDCs than in MEDCs

• There are generally more economic losses in MEDCs than in LEDCs

• MEDCs have access to technology and have more resources available for awareness and education campaigns to keep people safe during earthquakes.

MEDC LEDC

The government is poor so aid (food, medical care) was needed from all over the world

Outside organisations were asked to stockpile water and tinned food to prepare for future earthquakes.

Building standards are very low. Buildings can’t withstand earthquakes , people were trapped.

6000 people were killed, 300,000 were left homeless in Kobe.

The earthquake caused $150billion dollars of damage

People and schools practice their earthquake drills regularly

As many as one million people were left homeless after the Haiti earthquake

The earthquake caused $14 billion dollars worth of damage.

There were few long term effects on Kobe as it is an MEDC (wealthy country)

Seismographs and other scientific equipment are used to monitor the seismic activity along fault lines

Emergency water tanks and electricity generators have been installed in Kobe to help prepare

3million people were affected and 300,000 were injured in the earthquake

people slept in the streets, on pavements and in cars or in makeshift shanty towns

Modern skyscrapers are now built with steel frames and set on rubber, they can sway during earthquakes and not be destroyed

households now have earthquake preparation kits

230,000 people died in the earthquake in Haiti

Sort the effects into LEDC and MEDC and add

them to your table

You are a news reporter and have visited the locations of 2 earthquakes, one in an MEDC and one in an LEDC, you can use the case study earthquakes or other ones

You need to write a newspaper article comparing and contrasting the impact of the earthquake events

Include photos and maps

Finish your newspaper article, I will be collecting it in.