Nepal Earthquake
- Created by: JessicaMPascoe
- Created on: 20-05-19 14:23
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- Nepal
- FACTS
- Uplift on Himalayas
- 7.8 magnitude
- Epicenter
- 50 miles from Kathmandu
- 25th April 2015
- Focus
- 9 miles underground
- Aftershock 26th April - 6.7
- 120 aftershocks in total
- Collision / destructive
- Indian + Eurasian
- IMPACTS
- Economic
- Businesses not good
- Incoming aid
- Tribhuvan international airport closed
- Loss of tourist revenue
- $5bn for rebuilding
- Harvest reduced
- Effecting agricultural families
- $10bn in losses
- Historical buildings destroyed
- Businesses not good
- Environmental
- Monsoon Season
- Landslides
- Mountainous regions inaccessible
- Avalanche of Mt E. triggered
- 17 killied
- Steep valleys - large landslides
- More destruction and blocking roads
- Monsoon Season
- Social
- Human traffickers prayed in female survivors
- Thousands homeless
- Temporary classrooms
- Higher rate of violence and **** after
- Malnutrition
- 8000 dead
- 19,000 injured
- Economic
- RESPONSES
- Long Term
- Asian development bank - $3m
- Renovation of world heritage sites
- boost tourism
- UK gave £73m of aid and equipment for search and rescue
- Short Term
- 1st May Doctors
- Helicopters visited hardest hit locations
- 90% of Nepalese to worst hit areas
- Monitoring CO2 conc.
- Emergency tents
- Long Term
- FUTURE
- Slow progress
- Extreme danger to 90% of properties
- Difficult access
- Slow distribution of funding
- $10 bn estimated, 1/2 economy
- Slow progress
- FACTS
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