earthquake from more developed country- Kobe
- Created by: Jenny Jones
- Created on: 10-03-14 19:25
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- Kobe
- Kobe, Japan
- 17th Jan 1995
- early hours of the morning
- 7.2 richter scale
- destructive plate boundary
- Awaji island epicentre focus
- Cause
- Secondary effects
- fires engulfed parts of the city
- homeless people slept in cars and on the streets
- damage cost $220 billion- economy suffered
- companies such as panasonic had to close temporarily
- Primary effects
- approx 6,500 people dead
- 40,000 people seriously injured
- 300,000 homeless
- havoc caused in city's infrastructure
- gas mains ruptured
- elevated roads collapsed
- railway lines buckled
- Immediate responses
- people searched through the rubble for survivors
- hospitals struggled to cope, treating and operating on people in corridors
- motorola maintained telephone connections free of charge
- Long term responses
- 80% railway operational within a month
- road networks mostly operational by July
- new building were built further apart to avoid the domino effect
- high-rise building had to have flexible steel frames and rubber blocks put under building to absorb shocks
- fires engulfed parts of the city
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