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Quick questions on Hazard vulnerability and resilience - Eduqas A-Level Geography
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What is the hazard risk equation?Show answer
The equation is the analytical heart of the topic. Hold the hazard constant (two magnitude earthquakes), and the impacts diverge entirely with vulnerability and capacity to cope: a quake under a poor, dense, poorly built, weakly governed city is catastrophic, while the same quake under a wealthy, well-built, well-prepared city causes far less harm. This is why Eduqas wants you to reason with the equation rather than assume that the bigger event is always the worse disaster.
What is q1?Show answer
State the hazard risk equation. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why a lower-magnitude earthquake can cause more deaths than a higher-magnitude one. [3 marks]
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