Geography Earthquakes- Nepal
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- Created on: 03-02-21 10:56
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- Nepal Earthquake
- Tectonic setting
- Situated in the middle of a collision zone
- Indo-Australian meets the Eurasian plate
- Nepal experiences two 7-8 earthquakes every 40 years
- The Gorkha Earthquake
- 7.8 magnitude
- 25th April 2015
- Fifty one aftershocks
- Focus- 15km
- Many landslides and avalanches caused
- Social Impacts
- 160 deaths in other countries
- 8800 people died with 22,000 injured
- Avalanches killed 20 climbers
- 473,000 housed were destroyed or badly damaged
- 1 million people needed food assistance
- The impacts were felt differently by different ethnic groups
- Economic Impacts
- Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world
- The cost was US$10 billion
- Tourism which accounts for 10% of the economy was badly hit.
- The Asian development bank provided US$ 200 million for aid
- Businesses did not have enough capital revenue to cope with the scale of the damage.
- As a result of borrowing debts increased
- The timing also disrupted the planting season ahead of the arrival of the monsoon
- longer impacts on food security
- Political Impacts
- Nepal was politically unstable before the earthquake
- Nepal received emergency aid for longer term reconstruction
- Sent aid from military aircrafts
- Caused tension with India
- Tectonic setting
- Social Impacts
- 160 deaths in other countries
- 8800 people died with 22,000 injured
- Avalanches killed 20 climbers
- 473,000 housed were destroyed or badly damaged
- 1 million people needed food assistance
- The impacts were felt differently by different ethnic groups
- Political Impacts
- Nepal was politically unstable before the earthquake
- Nepal received emergency aid for longer term reconstruction
- Sent aid from military aircrafts
- Caused tension with India
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