The Earthquake struck at 03:32am on the 5th April 2009.
Impacts (Primary, Secondary):
291 Victims dead and 1,500 injured.
Over 11,000 buildings collapsed which left 88,000 people unemployed, services and buisnesses disrupted, 28,000 students without a university to attend and 58,000 people homeless.
Medieval Buildings collapsed due to inadequet retrofitting which caused a drop in tourism to that area. There was also damage to the cathedral and a bridge.
A water pipe split which caused several landslides.
Aftershocks caused more damage.
Overall the earthquake had a $4 billion dollar impact.
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