Tectonic hazard - Kobe Earthquake SDME
- Created by: howea017
- Created on: 27-04-14 12:45
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2. What can people do to prepare?
- Run away
- Gather emergency supplies and organise shelter elsewhere
- Deal with it
3. What movement causes Earthquakes?
- convection currents
- Sudden releases of pressure
- friction
4. Where do they occur
- Oceanic plates
- Plate boundries
- Continental plates
- Anywhere
5. Name the secondry impatcs to this Primary one: The ground is shaking-buildings fall
- Carry away buildings, block roads, floods - death (land slides, tsunami)
- Injury and death - broken families -stress - homelessness - no job
- emergancy services cannot reach affected areas Hard to get aid in(Cracks in roads open up and railways distroyed)
- fires break out - hydrants dont work - sewage may contaminate (sewage systems, gas and water mains broken
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