sichuan
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- Created on: 09-05-16 14:00
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- Sichuan - China 2008
- General info
- 7.9 on Richter scale
- tremors also felt it India and Russia
- happened along the Longmen Shan fault
- Social effects
- 70,000 dead
- 370,000 injured
- 5-11 million homeless
- 7000 schools collapsed
- 5million buildings collapsed
- roads destroyed by landslides
- economic impacts
- 80% of buildings collapsed in rural areas, due to poor building stanards
- highly vulnerable due to very populated area
- effective lines of communication broken
- Environmental impacts
- huge landslides caused
- quake lakes were formed
- train carrying 13 petrol tanks derailed and caught fire
- Management
- reconstruction project to build about 5 million houses
- banks wrote off a lot of debt
- government gave mothers about $8800 in exchange for silence of the matter
- General info
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