Earthquakes- Case Studies
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- Earthquake case studies
- Kobe. Japan 1995
- strength- 7.2
- Eurasian and Philippine plates involved.
- Killed 6,000 Injured 40,000 Left 300,000 homeless
- There were a lot of fires, it damaged the infrastructure, broke pipes in the area (gas, water, sewage), pylons collapsed.
- Responses:
- Short term
- People slept in parks; the hospitals couldn't cope; the local authorities response was slow; rescue slow to arrive; it was days before they asked for outside help.
- Long term
- Better building regulations were put into place; also better emergency drills; they rebuilt infrastructure and houses.
- Short term
- Kashmir, Pakistan, 2005
- Eurasian and Indo-Australian plates involved
- 7.6 richtor scale
- Primary effects
- 80,000 deaths, mostly from collapsed buildings; hundreds of thousands of people injured; water pipelines and electricity lines were broken.
- Secondary effects
- Landslides
- Buried buildings and people
- Blocked access roads and cut off water supplies, electricity supplies and telephone lines.
- Diarrhoea and other disesase spread due to little clean water.
- Freezing winter conditions shortly after the earthquake caused more casualties and meant rescue and rebuilding operations were difficult.
- Landslides
- Immediate response
- Help didn't reach many areas for days or weeks
- tents, medical supplies and blankets were distributed within a month, but not to all areas affected.
- International aid and equipment such as helicopters and rescue dogs were brought in, as well as teams of people from other countries.
- Long-term response
- Around 40,000 people have been relocated to a new town
- Government money has been given to people whose homes had been destroyed so they can rebuild them themselves.
- Training has been provided to help rebuild more buildings as earthquake resistant.
- New health centres have been set up in the area.
- Kobe. Japan 1995
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