LEDC case study earthquake
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- Geography LEDC earthquake case study- Sichuan, China
- Secondary effects
- It cost £75 million to repair the damage
- Artificial dams were created from blocked rivers
- Risk of flooding
- Landslides blocked roads and buried buildings
- Immediate responses
- Situation assessed
- Twenty helicopters sent to search
- Trapped survivors rescued
- Difficult because of steep relief
- Primary effects
- Cracks appeared in buildings in Chengdu
- Dujiangyan- a school collapsed trapping 900 students
- Transport links destroyed
- Power supplies cut
- 69,000 died
- 12th May 2008 2:28pm
- Cause
- Indian plate moving towards the Eurasian plate. The plates became stuck and the pressure was released along a fault
- Long term responses
- Buildings rebuilt and repaired
- The Red Cross sent aid
- Magnitude 7.9
- Secondary effects
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