earthquakes
- Created by: hazza187
- Created on: 04-01-20 09:49
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- earthquakes
- Nepal (LIC)
- 109/193 for GDP and 145/287 for HID
- caused by indo-Australian plate colliding with the Eurasian plate
- had a magnitude of 7.9 and a very shallow focus of 15 km
- secondary effects
- flooding caused from a landslide that blocked up a river
- avalanches on mount everest killed at least 19 people
- communities cut off by landslides and avalanches
- primary effects
- 9,000 killed 20,000 injured and 8,000,000 people effected
- widespread destruction of buildings
- $5 billion USD in damage
- power water and communicati-ons cut
- Chile (HIC)
- 38/193 for GDP and 41/187 for HID
- Caused by the Nazca plate subduction beneath the south american plate just off the coast from Chile
- had a magnitude of 8.8 and a shallow focus of 35 km
- primary effects
- 500 killed 12,000 injured and 800,000 affected
- significant destruction of buildings
- power, water and communicati-ons cut off
- $30 billion USD in damage
- secondary effects
- communities cut off by landslides
- coastal towns devastated by tsunami
- chemical plant fire near Santiago forced evacuations
- Nepal (LIC)
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