Teacher Resource 14

Managing hazards from earthquakesLearners will review the hazards arising from earthquakes which include: ground shaking; liquefaction; mass movements such as landslides and tsunamis.

They will then examine the various strategies to manage hazards from earthquakes. These include:

attempts to mitigate against the event such as land-use zoning

attempts to mitigate against vulnerability such as building design

attempts to mitigate against losses such as insurance.

a) Ask your learners to explore the following website.

http://www.sms-tsunami-warning.com/pages/earthquake-effects

Make brief notes on hazards arising from earthquakes including; ground shaking; liquefaction; mass movements such as landslides and tsunamis

b) Ask your learners to explore the following website

https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/03/natural_disasters

Look at the graph entitled ‘World’s costliest natural disasters since 1965.’ Why do you think earthquakes are often the costliest disasters in the world? Why are the costliest disasters found in advanced countries? Why do you think the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, which caused some 250,000 deaths, does not feature on this chart?

c) Download the following

These resources can be shared with learners as additional support materials and / or further reading.

(i) Natural disasters: earthquakes, which is a curriculum-led geography teaching package designed for use with learners aged 11 to 19, published by the British Red Cross

http://www.redcross.org.uk/~/media/BritishRedCross/Documents/What%20we%20do/Teaching%20resources/Teaching%20packages/GA%20resource/Natural%20disasters%20earthquakes_complete%20resource.pdf

(ii) Unlocking the ‘Triple Dividend’ of Resilience, Which is a policy briefing funded by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) at the World Bank and led by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

https://www.gfdrr.org/sites/default/files/publication/unlocking_triple_dividend_resilience.pdf

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d) Visit the website about Sabiha Gökçen International Airport terminal in Istanbul which opened in 2009 and is the largest "seismically-isolated" building in the world. Ask learner’s to explain how the isolation system works.

https://www.wired.com/2009/11/worlds-largest-earthquake-safe-building/

e) Ask your learners to summarise the Triple Dividend of resilience shown in the Fig 2 on page 15: https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/10103.pdf

f) Use the sources to produce a report examining the various strategies to manage hazards from earthquakes. These include:

attempts to mitigate against the event (e.g. land-use zoning)

attempts to mitigate against vulnerability (e.g. building design)

attempts to mitigate against losses (e.g. insurance).

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