Sichuan Earthquake
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- Created on: 22-11-16 17:17
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- SICHUAN
- CAUSES
- 2008, South East China
- Biggest earthquake since 1936
- Destructive Plate boundary, Indian and Eurasian plates
- Epicentre 90km NW, rural area means it is less hazardous
- Magnitude 7.9
- SHORT TERM RESPONSES
- 80,000 troops helped with the rescue
- Army parachuted into mountainous areas
- Explosives used to destroy dams and prevent lakes from flooding
- Foreign aid 95 million wuan
- Evacuations
- LONG TERM RESPONSES
- Took 8 years to rebuild
- $3.37 billion given to China in disaster relief
- SOCIAL IMPACTS
- 242,000 people died
- 1.5 million evacuated, 5 million homeless
- Aftershocks: 8 died, 927 injured, 700,000 at risk of flooding
- 700 people died from a landslide
- 15 million evacuated from 10 provinces
- 8 schools destroyed
- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
- 12,000 after shocks
- landslides, which dammed several rivers
- 34 barrier lakes
- ECONOMIC IMPACTS
- After shocks destroyed 400,000 houses
- 5 million buildings collapsed
- 21 million damaged
- 2,473 dams fractured
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