MeDcs and Ledcs differences
The impacts of volcanoes and earthquakes vary with MEDCs and LEDCs.
LEDCs will in general have more damage than MEDCs. In Hati, most of the city was destroyed, because they had little or no money to invest in earthquake proofing. While in Christchurch, most of the city still stood after the first earthquake, due to being able to earthquake proof buildings. The Hati earthquake killed 220,000 people, while in Christchurch only 185 people were killed after the second earthquake. This was because MEDCs have much stricter building standards, making the earthquake less of a threat.
LEDCs are not as organised as MEDCs, leading to many problems in the recovery process. After the Hati earthquake, most of the 1.5 million homeless had to live in makeshift tents and camps. These camps had poor standards leading to more people dying from disease. Others risked flooding. In the Christchurch earthquake, the homeless were moved to safe shelters, citizens were well educated and able to organize. MEDCs recover from a disaster like this much faster than LEDCs. Poorer countries like Hati do not have the wealth to prevent or repair damage of an earthquake. The cost of repair was too much and they needed to rely on the aid of foreign countries. Even now, they still are slowly recovering, whilst Christchurch is fine. Another difference is the amount of different work industries that MEDCs and LEDCs have. Many MEDCs have a large work industry with many trade imports and exports, so when the earthquake hits they will not be able to provide exports and countries will look else where, damaging the economy of the earthquake hit MEDC. MEDCs also have the chance that their population will run away and move over to different counties because they have more viable transports, losing population means a lack of work force and sometimes that can lower the rate of recovery. Although in LEDCs people can not evacuate as easily and many people die. Overall, LEDCS suffer a larger amount of damage compared to the MEDCS whom have the wealth to prevent and repair. LEDCs are limited to few options in protection and repair. Some LEDCs will take several years to overcome the impacts from a tectonic hazard, whereas MEDCs can recover in a shorter number of years.
LEDCs will in general have more damage than MEDCs. In Hati, most of the city was destroyed, because they had little or no money to invest in earthquake proofing. While in Christchurch, most of the city still stood after the first earthquake, due to being able to earthquake proof buildings. The Hati earthquake killed 220,000 people, while in Christchurch only 185 people were killed after the second earthquake. This was because MEDCs have much stricter building standards, making the earthquake less of a threat.
LEDCs are not as organised as MEDCs, leading to many problems in the recovery process. After the Hati earthquake, most of the 1.5 million homeless had to live in makeshift tents and camps. These camps had poor standards leading to more people dying from disease. Others risked flooding. In the Christchurch earthquake, the homeless were moved to safe shelters, citizens were well educated and able to organize. MEDCs recover from a disaster like this much faster than LEDCs. Poorer countries like Hati do not have the wealth to prevent or repair damage of an earthquake. The cost of repair was too much and they needed to rely on the aid of foreign countries. Even now, they still are slowly recovering, whilst Christchurch is fine. Another difference is the amount of different work industries that MEDCs and LEDCs have. Many MEDCs have a large work industry with many trade imports and exports, so when the earthquake hits they will not be able to provide exports and countries will look else where, damaging the economy of the earthquake hit MEDC. MEDCs also have the chance that their population will run away and move over to different counties because they have more viable transports, losing population means a lack of work force and sometimes that can lower the rate of recovery. Although in LEDCs people can not evacuate as easily and many people die. Overall, LEDCS suffer a larger amount of damage compared to the MEDCS whom have the wealth to prevent and repair. LEDCs are limited to few options in protection and repair. Some LEDCs will take several years to overcome the impacts from a tectonic hazard, whereas MEDCs can recover in a shorter number of years.