Kobe Earthquake Case Study
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- Created on: 06-05-17 14:17
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- Kobe - Earthquake
- Basic Facts
- January 17th 1995
- Kobe region of central Japan
- Causes
- 7.2 on the Richter Scale
- It was at 5am, meaning people were not prepared
- Destructive plate boundary
- Responses
- Long term
- High-rise buildings built with flexible frames
- New laws were passed to make buildings and transport structures even more earthquake proof
- Instruments installed to monitor earthquake movements
- $50 billion costs
- New earthquake drills put in place
- Rubber blocks put under bridges to absorb shocks
- Ports active after a year
- Building built further apart to prevent domino effect
- Short Term
- Emergency aid and rescue workers
- people given emergency shelter in schools, town halls and parks
- Long term
- Effects
- Primary effects
- During the 20 second earthquake the ground moved up to 50cm horizontally and up to 1m vertically
- The top deck of the Hanshin highway collapsed onto the bottom deck
- Over 6,400 dead
- Collapse of old wooden buildings, bridges and roads
- Secondary effects
- Congestion and chaos on the roads - damage to all types of transport including trains
- Closure of businesses. Industry on the port was also badly affected
- Problems made worse by the large numbers of aftershocks
- Fires that broke out all over the city of Kobe because of broken gas pipes and electric lines
- Many more people died in the fires
- Primary effects
- Basic Facts
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