GCSE Geography AQA Kobe Earthquake Case Study
Mindmap with information on the MEDC case study of the Kobe earthquake.
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- Kobe Earthquake
- Primary Effects
- 20 000 buildings collapsed
- Bullet trains de-railed
- Wooden houses collapsed
- 120 of the 150 quays in the port of Kobe were destroyed
- Hanshin Express Collapsed
- Responses
- Quake/fire proofed buildings
- More seismograph for tracking tectonic activity
- 3 months to get systems back working - gas and eectricity
- Now have earthquake drills
- 1.2 million volunteers in relief efforts
- Secondary Effects
- 230 000 people were left homeless
- shortages of clean water and food
- blocked roads delayed fire engines and ambulances
- Transport stopped for 3 days - trains
- Many systems shut down - gas and electric
- Wildfire - 7500 wooden houses destroyed
- Background Information
- Causes by Eurasian and Phillipines plate subducting
- Nojima fault
- 17 January 1995
- lasted 2-3 minutes
- 6000 deaths
- 716 aftershocks
- 7.2 on the Richter scale
- Primary Effects
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