Why Does the Same Hazard Event Verify In Its Severity From Place To Place?

As you can see the diagram above shows that when an earthquake occurs it doesn't cause any danger to human life as the area has no human presence. However the diagram below shows that when the two systems contact each other and an event like an earthquake takes place it is considered a hazard because of the potential risk to the destruction of property and loss of life.

Earthquakes nearly all the time occur on plate boundaries,

These tectonic plates rub together and cause friction, which causes an earthquake .

I will now compare an MEDC and a LEDC, which was hit by an earthquake to roughly the same Richter scale and show how the severity was different.

On The 17th of January 1994, an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale hit Los Angeles in the USA causing 57 fatalities. There was limited damage to the surrounding building

Volcanic eruptions can obviously cause serious human, economic and environmental impacts, but volcanoes can also be rich in natural resources. Perhaps the greatest resource from volcanoes is the land formed by the materials given out. Volcanic activity has created some of the most scenic and fertile region on the earth. However it can also have an opposite effect and actually destroy land, which has been developed for human use. Like earthquakes most volcanoes are found near plate boundaries across the world