Case Study Comparison- Nepal VS New Zealand
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- Created on: 03-04-18 12:29
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- Case Study: Nepal VS New Zealand
- Nepal
- Earthquake
- Richter Scale- 7.9
- 25th April 2015
- Destructive Plate Margin
- Indo-Australian and Eurasian
- Impacts
- Primary
- 9000 dead
- 20000 injured
- Cost of damage: $5 billion
- No tsunami- in land
- 3 million homeless
- Secondary
- 250 went missing in an avalanche in the Lang Tang region
- 19 killed by an avalanche on Mount Everest
- Triggered Landslides and Avalanches
- Primary
- Response
- Countries such as UK, India and China provided water and aid
- $415 million of aid
- Installed Warning systems
- Countries such as UK, India and China provided water and aid
- Earthquake
- New Zealand
- Earthquake
- Richter Scale- 6.3
- 22nd February 2011
- Destructive Plate Boundary
- Indo-Australian and Pacific
- Effects
- Primary
- 185 dead
- People went missing
- Businesses closed
- Secondary
- Flooding
- Primary
- Responses
- People moved away
- Better building desisgnes
- Earthquake
- Comparisons
- More causalities and people made homeless in Nepal- higher rates of poverty and unstable houses
- More international aid for Nepal- New Zealand countries didn't think needed it as its a HIC
- More severe secondary impacts from Nepal- houses would've had foundations in unstable ground and therefore avalanches and landslides occured
- Nepal
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