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Mudflow Mitigation

Mudflow Mitigation. By: Dylan Lien, Charles Wang, and Josh Cho. What are Landslides and Mudflows?. Landslide – The downwards sliding of a relatively dry mass of earth and rock. Mudflow – a downhill movement of soft wet earth and debris, made fluid by rain or

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Mudflow Mitigation

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  1. Mudflow Mitigation By: Dylan Lien, Charles Wang, and Josh Cho

  2. What are Landslides and Mudflows? Landslide – The downwards sliding of a relatively dry mass of earth and rock. Mudflow – a downhill movement of soft wet earth and debris, made fluid by rain or melted snow and often building up great speed. Lahars – landslides or mudflow composed mostly of volcanic material. Avalanche – a type of slide characterized by the chaotic movement of rocks, soil and debris mixed with water and/or ice.

  3. Introduction Don’t judge a book by it’s cover Chain Reaction Disastrous

  4. Our Specific Topic Mitigation Raise Awareness

  5. Our Purpose Save People

  6. The Message Billions of dollars in damage Hundreds of deaths

  7. Mudflows

  8. Mission Statement What we will do

  9. The Power of Landslides http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/video/2008/12/aardverschuiving_vs_ambulance.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-flood-video-ap.html?sources=rss

  10. Landslides

  11. Semi-Recent Landslides 2008 Cairo Landslide - 100 people 2007 Chittogong Mudflow - 128 people 2006 Southern Leyte mudslide – 256 students and 7 teachers 1999 Vargas mudslides - Lasted 3 days – 50,000 people

  12. Landslide Simulation

  13. Dec 2007 Landslide Occurrences

  14. Dec 2008 Landslide Occurrences

  15. Mid-Presentation Questions

  16. Action Plan Raise Money Propose Idea Send Money

  17. Our Goal Buy 3 emergency kits Sponge a Teacher

  18. Emergency Kits Emergency Kits consist of: 2 Packets of crackers2 bottles of mineral waterA hand-cranked flashlightA travel blanket

  19. Short Term Goals Raise Money Donate Educate Form a larger group

  20. Long Term Goals Raise Money Donate Volunteer

  21. What would you do in a Landslide Situation? Crawl under furniture Run Evacuate with the rest of the neighbourhood

  22. Questions

  23. Resources http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/YSAR 7ELQSG?OpenDocument http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/december 2008-landslide-map.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/amirphotography/2868118235/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramonamayhem/3211214687/ http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghsUUEdHWDTQ9ZN4 gpDc2dbHMiw 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 Google Images!

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