Immediate/short term responses.
- Friends and neighbours searched through rubble for survivors.
- Emergency services provided help when access was possible.
- Shopping centres such as 7-Eleven opened up to provide emergency medical facilities.
- Motorola provided mobile phone connection free of charge.
Long term responses.
- Rebuilding of roads and bridges.
- Railways 80% operational within a month.
- One year later the port was 80% operational, but much of container port was lost.
- Changes made to building standards to prevent further damage to new buildings.
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