Kobe Earthquake
- Created by: Stephanie Boom
- Created on: 24-05-14 13:45
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- Kobe Earthquake
- Background information
- Location: Japan - East Asia on the Pacific ocean
- Date: 17th January 1995
- MEDC country
- Causes
- Located on a destructive plate margin: Eurasian and Phillipine
- 7.2 on the Richer scale
- Shallow focus of only 16km
- Over 1300 after shocks
- Liqufaction occured making it more unstable
- Epicentre was only 20km from the city of Kobe
- Social impacts
- 300,000 left homeless - one fifth of Kobe's population
- 6,000 killed
- 500 deaths from fires
- 35,000 injured
- Economic impacts
- $105 billion worth of infrastructure damage
- 3/4 of water pipes damaged
- 2 toyota factories damaged causing a halt in the assembly system
- 102,000 buildings damaged - 7,500 were wood
- Environmental
- Sewage leaks causing disease
- Over 300 fires that took 2 days to put out
- Hazards
- Secondary
- People made homeless
- Wide spread damage
- Buildings to withstand 8.4 failed
- Primary
- Routes into the city were destroyed - places were
- Raised motorway collapsed, damaging infrastructure below
- Electricity supplies cut off by falling debris
- Secondary
- Responses
- Short term
- initially there were few supplies
- Shelters over crowded - unsanitory
- Long term
- Services running by July
- 80% port working 1 year later
- More earthquake drills run
- Monitoring instruments
- Short term
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