earthquake from less developed country- Sichuan
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- Created on: 11-03-14 18:17
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- Sichuan earthquake
- Sichuan, China
- 12th May 2008
- 7.9 richter scale
- Destructive plate boundary
- epicentre- wenchuan
- Primary effects
- 69,000 dead
- 18,000 missing
- approx 374,000 missing
- 5-11 million homeless
- 5 million buildings including school destroyed
- in a school there were 900 pupils killed
- Secondary effects
- roads blocked by landslides
- rivers also blocked by landslides, lead to fears of flooding
- cost of damage predicted at $75 million
- Immediate responses
- 20 helicopters assigned to rescue people
- needed clean water, food and tents
- areas of land flattened for tents
- 2 days after earthquake, China requested international help
- 1 million temporary homes built
- Long term responses
- vice president said building would be finished within 3 years
- debts of survivors with no insurance written off
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