Mudflow Mitigation

Mudflow Mitigation

Mudflow MitigationBy: Dylan Lien, Charles Wang, and Josh ChoWhat are Landslides and Mudflows?Landslide The downwards sliding of arelatively dry mass of earth and rock.

Mudflow a downhill movement of soft wetearth and debris, made fluid by rain ormelted snow and often building up greatspeed.

Lahars landslides or mudflow composedmostly of volcanic material.

Avalanche a type of slide characterized bythe chaotic movement of rocks, soil anddebris mixed with water and/or ice.IntroductionDont judge a book by its cover

Chain Reaction

DisastrousOur Specific TopicMitigation

Raise AwarenessOur PurposeSave People

The MessageBillions of dollars in damage

Hundreds of deathsMudflows

Mission StatementWhat we will doThe Power of Landslideshttp://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/video/2008/12/aardverschuiving_vs_ambulance.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-flood-video-ap.html?sources=rssLandslides

Semi-Recent Landslides 2008 Cairo Landslide - 100 people

2007 Chittogong Mudflow - 128 people

2006 Southern Leyte mudslide 256students and 7 teachers

1999 Vargas mudslides - Lasted 3 days 50,000 peopleLandslide Simulation

Dec 2007 Landslide Occurrences

Dec 2008 Landslide Occurrences

Mid-Presentation QuestionsAction PlanRaise Money

Propose Idea

Send MoneyOur GoalBuy 3 emergency kits

Sponge a TeacherEmergency KitsEmergency Kits consist of:

2 Packets of crackers2 bottles of mineral waterA hand-cranked flashlightA travel blanketShort Term GoalsRaise Money

Donate

Educate

Form a larger groupLong Term GoalsRaise Money

Donate

VolunteerWhat would you do in a Landslide Situation?Crawl under furniture

Run

Evacuate with the rest of the neighbourhoodQuestionsResourceshttp://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/YSAR7ELQSG?OpenDocument

http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/december2008-landslide-map.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amirphotography/2868118235/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramonamayhem/3211214687/

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghsUUEdHWDTQ9ZN4gpDc2dbHMiw

http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_36828.shtml

http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/leytelandslide/view.hp?db=0&article=20060222-67012

http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=0376-723X2003000200004&lng=es&nrm=iso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYKPkIlTyeQ

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