Geography CASE STUDY presentation Hamza Azam Geo HL IBDP BCCG 2017

2.  Introduction
 Basic Facts
 Further Facts and Figures
 Destruction and Damage
 Action
 Effects
 Causes
 Result
CONTENTS

3.  Where: Queensland, Australia
 River: Fitzroy and Brunette rivers
 Period of the flood: couple of months
 Dec 2010 to january 2011
What, when and where

4. GREAT QUEENSLAND FLOOD
INUNDATES 22 TOWNS, DISPLACES
200,000, KILLS 20 +, AND CAUSES
LOSSES OF OVER $5 BILLION IN
AUSTRALIA

5. Heavy storms can sometimes cause huge volumes of water to depart
from a river's natural course and spread over dry land.
How do floods come about?

6. 75 PERCENT OF QUEENSLAND
STATE DECLARED A DISASTER
ZONE

7. RECORD FLOODING IN AUSTRALIA:
NEW SOUTH WALES
ROCKHAMPTON
TOOWOOMBA
BRISBANE
DECEMBER 10 – JANUARY ?, 2011

11. Extent of the flood

12. Damage and Destruction

14. THE FIRST PHASE OF RECORD
FLOODING BEGAN IN
DECEMBER
DECEMBER 10, 2010

15. DECEMBER STORMS BROUGHT HEAVY
RAINFALL: DEC. 17, 2010

16. TOWN OF THEODORE: FLOODED

17. THE SECOND PHASE OF
FLOODING HAPPENED IN
JANUARY
AN AREA OF FLOODING THE SIZE OF FRANCE AND GERMANY (OR, TEXAS
AND NEW MEXICO) COMBINED WAS CREATED IN QUEENSLAND

18. Rockhampton, a town of
77,000 people 370 miles north
of Brisbane, lies close to the
coast, on the Fitzroy, one of
Australia's largest river
systems.
ROCKHAMPTON HIT HARD

19. ROCKHAMPTON BECAME AN
ISLAND:JANUARY 3, 2011

20. All main routes to the south, north
and west of the city were cut off
by the rising water, rail lines and
the airport runways were
submerged, and floodwaters
stretched for several miles in each
direction.
ROCKHAMPTON HIT HARD

21. FITZROY RIVER STILL RISING:
JANUARY 3, 2011

22. TRADITIONAL SANDBAGGING HAD
LIMITED VALUE

23. FITZROY RIVER PEAKED AT 9.2 M:
JANUARY 6, 2011

24. THE THIRD PHASE OF FLOODING
WAS TRIGGERED BY A FLASH
FLOOD
JANUARY 11, 2011

25. The flash flood, which brought a one
kilometer wide wall of water into
Toowoomba, was triggered by a
freak storm — with up to 150
millimeters (6 inches) of rain in half
an hour.
FLASH FLOOD IN TOOWOOMBA

26. Cars were transformed into “boats”
and became scrap metal as they
collided with infrastructure; giant
metal industrial bins were tossed
about as if made of paper; and
houses were torn off foundations.

27. FLASH FLOOD:TOOWOOMBA, JAN 7,
2011

28. THE FOURTH PHASE OF
FLOODING BEGINS IN BRISBANE
JANUARY 11 AND FOLLOWING

29. BRISBANE RIVER: JAN 8, 2011

30. BRISBANE PREPARING FOR FLOODING: JAN 8,
2011

31. The city is protected by a large dam
built upstream after floods
devastated the downtown in 1974,
but the reservoir was full, so officials
had no choice but to release water,
which caused flooding before the
“FLOOD”.
BRISBANE

32. MORE than 50 suburbs were flooded
as the Brisbane River rose to 4.5 m or
more above flood stage, with some
areas being completely inundated.
BRISBANE

33. BRISBANE FLOODING: JAN 11, 2011

34. BRISBANE RIVER CRESTED AT 4.46 M: JAN
12, 2011

35.  35 people dead.
 In Ipswich 350 homes
 Cattle, sheep and goats lost.
 200,00 people are without power
 6,000 homes are without power in the north.
 Thousands of hectors of Agricultural land lost.
 Most affected were residents of the Lockyer Valley
 Town of Gympie cut off and dozens of businesses were underwater.
 The rain was brought by Tropical Cyclone Oswald, affecting the N. part of New South Wales.

36.  Initial estimation at around A$1 billion
 Raised to $2.38 billion.
 Finally $5.6 billion
 Reduction in Australia's GDP A$40 billion.
Monetary damage

38.  $14.8m for Inquiry, "forensically examine" the chain of events.
 "I see this as an investment in our future safety, an investment in
being better prepared for an event like this in the future,"
 "This is very big. It's not just something which is going to occupy
our time for the next few months. It will be a question of years
as we go through the rebuilding."
 The floods have been blamed on the La Nina weather pattern in
the Pacific.
Action

39. .
A difficult situation was made even
more so by thunderstorms, high
winds, raging rivers, and driving rain
that made it very hard for
helicopters and boats to reach and
rescue flood victims.
EMERGENCY SERVICES

40. Queensland's raw coal
production declined by
more one third in late
2010 and was slow to
recover. Coal railway
lines were closed and
numerous mine sites
flooded.
--------------------------------
• On 8 July 2014
• firm Maurice Blackburn
• class action with the NSW Supreme Court
• On behalf of 4000 flood victims.
• dams:
• Seqwater,
• SunWater
• the State of Queensland.
Legal Action

41. DISASTER & HAZARD
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
TECHNIQUES
AND
TECHNOLOGIES
ACADEMIA
FUNCTIONAL
NETWORKING
CHANNELS
INFORMATION
NETWORKING
CHANNELS
ORGANIZATION
NETWORKING
CHANNELS
COLLABORATION
COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS
Stratec Consulting

42. CAUSES OF THE FLOOD

43.  Coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon of climate
pattern.
 During a period of La Niña, the sea surface temperature
across the equatorial Eastern Central Pacific Ocean will be
lower than normal by 3–5 °C.
 This means that the temperatures are significantly low.
 Unusually strong, eastward-moving trade winds and ocean
currents bring this cold water to the surface
LA NINA

45. Urbanization
Human causes for the flood

49. Natural causes of the flood

50. Positive effect

51. Negative effect

52. The local wildlife was caught off-
guard by the flooding; bewildered
and hungry kangaroos moved to
high ground, and cattle were left
lost and confused by the excessive
water that inundated everything.
WILDLIFE AFFECTED

53.  It was a considered a hundred year flood, floods of
this extent had occurred in 1893 and 1974.
 Another affect of Global warming.
 Catastrophe can be avoided by collaboration.
results

54. AFTERMATH
 Long term  Short term

56.  BBC: http://www.bbc.com/
 ABC: http://abcnews.go.com/
 http://masey.co/2011/01/2011-queensland-floods-big-wet/#ixzz44ZQWXMfN
 http://www.couriermail.com.au
 differences by: https://services.land.vic.gov.au/floods/vic_floods_ok.htm
 Arial photograph http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2011/01/14/1225988/041111-grantham-flood.jpg
 BABY KANGROO: http://masey.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2011-queensland-floods-the-big-wet.jpg
 Pictures: http://mapsof.net/uploads/static-maps/brisbane_river_map.png
 http://www.environskimberley.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Fitzroy-map_0808_copyright-Ecomap-2006.jpg
 http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2013/01/21/1226558/296047-flood-maps.jpg
 https://media.apnarm.net.au/139.4/img/media/images/2011/01/13/map.jpg
 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Queensland_in_Australia.svg/2055px-
Queensland_in_Australia.svg.png
 http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/images/time/australia/queensland.jpg
 Presentation by biba?
 Presentation by Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA
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