L'Aquila
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- L'Aquila Earthquake
- Causes
- 5th April 2009
- 5.8 on Richter Scale
- Shallow focus of 6 miles
- African and Eurasian Plates- destructive
- Older buildings that hadn't been updated
- Lack of building policies and ineffective retrofitting
- Impacts
- Social
- 291 people died
- 1,500 injured
- 88,000 jobless
- 58,000 homeless
- 28,000 students with out access to university
- Economic
- $4 billion in damage
- Disruption to businesses
- damage to infrastructure
- Environmental
- 11,000 buildings destroyed
- Caused landslides
- Damage to old buildings of medievil period
- Social
- Responses
- Primary
- 11,000 volunteers
- 161 tented settlements needed to home people
- Red Cross gave 10,000 meals a day in field kitchens
- Post Office set up temporary offices so people could access pensions
- Italian Sky stopped billing people
- Mobile phone companies gave out free phones to enable communication
- 34,000 hardship grants- sum of $2.4 bn
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- Secondary
- Government paid for 100% of all building and reconstruction
- Whole new towns were funded by the government
- Primary
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- The Science
- Updated seismic map
- Improved the monitoring and vetting of building contracters
- Monitor radon emissions of a way of predicting earthquakes
- Causes
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