Case Study: Kobe Earthquake
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- Kobe Earthquake
- Key facts
- 17th January 1995
- Heavily populated urban area
- 7.4 on the Richter scale
- Occured as a result of plate movement between the Philippines plate, Pacific plate and Eurasian plate
- Primary effects
- 35000 injured
- Buildings and bridges collapsed despite earthquake proof designs
- 6433 dead
- Estimated $100 billion damage
- Secondary effects
- Buildings destroyed by fire when the gas mains fractured
- 316000 homeless
- Refugees moved into temporary housing
- Short term responses
- People were evacuated
- Emergency rations provided
- Rescue teams searched for survivors for 10 days
- Long term responses
- People moved away from the area permanently
- Jobs created in the construction industry as part of a re-building programme
- After effects
- Seismic shaking
- Landslides and liquefaction
- Triggering of aftershocks and additional earthquakes
- Key facts
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