laquila
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- L'aquila Italy - MDC Earthquake
- 6th April 2009 6.3
- 309 killed
- 15,000 injured
- 67,000 homeless
- where?....
- Destructive Plate Margin
- Adria micro plate subductig beneath european plate
- 100km from rome
- medieval city
- historic building with poor foundations
- NOT retrofitted
- historic building with poor foundations
- social effects
- 5.0 after schocks
- 309 dead
- 67000 homeless
- 1500 injured
- leave area to find work
- economical effects
- cost 15bn
- thousands of buildings destroyed
- fires spread
- water pipes burst
- responses
- pm promised to build a new town by 2010
- rescue attempts organised between army services, fire services and ambulances
- electricity and gas bills suspended
- camps set up for the homeless
- 6th April 2009 6.3
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