Earthquake Case Study LEDC
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- Earthquake Case Study LEDC
- Secondary Impacts
- diseases spread due to little clean water
- winter conditions after quake caused more deaths
- 3 million people made homeless
- landslides buried people and buildings
- blocked access to roads
- Reasons for severity of impacts
- badly constructed roads delayed arrival of help
- people rescued by hand, not equipment
- international aid eventually arrived
- tents, blankets and medical help distributed to some areas
- buildings weren't designed to withstand quake
- Primary Impacts
- entire villages and thousands of buildings destroyed
- hundreds or thousands of people injured
- water and electricity lines broken, cutting off supply
- around 80000 deaths, collapsed buildings
- Background Info
- Kashmir, Pakistan
- 8th October 2005
- cause: movement along crack in plate at destructive margin
- 7.6 on richter scale
- around $5 billion in damage
- Secondary Impacts
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