Chinese Earthquake Effects (sichuan)

• Over 69,000 people lost their lives in the quake, including 68,636 in Sichuan province
• 374,176 were reported injured
• 18,222 listed as missing
• Left about 4.8 million people homeless
• In the city of Dujiangyan, south-east of the epicenter, a whole school collapsed with 900 students buried and fewer than 60 survived.
• 7000 inadequally engineered schools collapsed, killing  19065  children.  Many families this was their only child (one child policy).  So for families with multiple kids, the illegal ones took the places of the first child if they were killed, so the parents were no longer fined.
• Around 25% of the deaths were due to landslides and other effects apart from shaking.
• Roads blocked by landslides

• A cargo train carrying 13 petrol tanks derailed in Hui County, Gansu, and caught on fire after the rail was distorted
• In the city of Shifang, the collapse of two chemical plants led to leakage of some 80 tons of liquid ammonia, with hundreds of people reported buried.
• The cost of restoring infrastructure was put at $75 million
• $146.5 billion was arranged to be spent over the 3 years from 2008-2011.
• Direct economic losses were calculated to be CNY845.1 billion ($125.6 billion US)
• Roads blocked by land slides
• Agriculture was the main economic employment for the region. Prices of pork and grain began to rise as there simply wasn't enough to go around after the disruption to grazing land and fields

NAME: Sichuan earthquake

DATE: May 12 2008

NO. DEAD: 69000

NO.INJURED: 374176

COST OF DAMAGE: $146.5 billion

Notes:

The earthquake lasted 120 seconds.

Reached 7.9 on the Richter scale.

• A cargo train carrying 13 petrol tanks derailed in Hui County, Gansu, and caught on fire after the rail was distorted
• In the city of Shifang, the collapse of two chemical plants led to leakage of some 80 tons of liquid ammonia, with hundreds of people reported buried.
• Flooding due to landslides.
• The Sichuan earthquake caused huge landslides across the affected region. Some of these landslides fell into riverbeds and dammed the water - forming what are called "quake lakes." Quake lakes are extremely dangerous for two reasons: first, because the lake they create behind the landslide will severely flood nearby cities and farmland, and secondly because the landslide dam will usually fail after damming up a large amount of water, sending a huge wave of water downstream that will destroy anything in its path.
• Agriculture was the main economic employment for the region. Prices of pork and grain began to rise as there simply wasn't enough to go around after the disruption to grazing land and fields.