GCSE Geography AQA Bam Earthquake Case Study
LEDC case study for and earthquake on AQA Geography course
- Created by: katie bayliss
- Created on: 06-05-13 14:29
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- Bam Earthquake
- High Death Toll
- No earthquake plan
- Lack of earthquake proof buildings
- No national plan for a disaster
- Poor construction of buildings
- Extreme cold weather made conditions hard for survivors
- Population boom so not enough space for houses
- Sub standard housing quickly built
- Couldn't afford to research ways to protect buildings from quakes
- Responses
- Volunteers brought medicine and equipment to help the injured
- Relief workers constructed 'tented cities' to try and house the many homeless people
- Secondary Effects
- Spent cold nights in blankets
- People left homeless
- People had to make their own shelter
- Rubble made it difficult to rescue people
- Primary Effects
- 43 000 deaths
- Citadel mostly destroyed
- people's homes collapsed
- Buildings collapsed
- High Death Toll
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