Earthquakes Case Study MEDC
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- Earthquake Case Study MEDC
- Background Info
- L'Aquila, Italy
- 6th April 2009
- 6.3 on richter scale
- cause: movement along crack in the plate at destructive margin
- around $15 billion in damage
- Secondary Impacts
- fires in collapsed buildings caused more damage
- 1000s of people made homeless
- broken water pipe caused landslide
- aftershocks hampered rescue efforts and caused more damaged
- Primary Impacts
- 1000s buildings were damaged or destroyed
- 100s were injured
- around 290 deaths- collapsed buildings
- Bridge near Fossa collapsed
- mains water pipe was broken
- Reasons for severity of impact
- camps were set up with water, food and medical help
- international teams also sent in
- reduces number of deaths as people rescued quickly
- ambulances, army and fire engines sent into to rescue survivors
- reduces number of deaths as people rescued quickly
- laws on construction standards
- some withstood earthquake and didn't collapse
- some weren't built to right standard
- ambulances, army and fire engines sent into to rescue survivors
- Italy has civil department that trains volunteers for rescue operations
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