Happisburgh... the residents are not so happy....

Happiburghs BIG Problem!

The houses on the cliff of Happiburghs town are rapidly decreasing in value as over the years erosion has made the land recede and the gardens of he houses along the coast have been completely demolished.

You can literally buy the houses for a matter of pounds as the building itself won’t be there for long!

The first picture is from when the erosion first started to cause a problem for the neighbours and the second picture is from 2007 where the erosion is a clear problem and a danger to people.

These pictures are just nine years apart and it shows the shocking natural force of erosion.

 

Find out more by watching clips here: BBC - Learning Zone Class Clips - A house threatened by coastal erosion - Geography Video or

BBC - Learning Zone Class Clips - Living with coastal erosion in Happisburgh, East Anglia (pt 1/2) - Geography Video.

 

If you find any more interesting stories (geography related) that you would like us to pursue please feel free to comment and tell us your ideas.

 

Written by AB

 

 

Topic of the Month - September

Topic of the month for September is Natural Disasters...

 

Each Week in September we will post different things surrounding the same topic... To begin with we chose natural disasters as in year 9 we are studying it at the moment...

 

The eye-catching topic of the week is the Haiti Earthquake; it occurred in 2010 and had a massive magnitude of 7.0! It hit the south of Haiti’s capital, Port au Prince. The earthquake killed over 300,000 people!!

 

The strong earthquake was then followed by two more aftershocks with high magnitudes of 5.9 and 5.7, causing even more trauma for the people of Haiti.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere and suffered four hurricanes and extreme storms in 2008, being barely recovered it was hit again with the disastrous earthquake in 2010.

Read more about the Haiti earthquakes through this link BBC News - Haiti devastated by massive earthquake which was published at the time.

Written by AB