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6. When did the Kobe earthquake occur? (KOBE)

  • 5:46am, 17th January 1995
  • 5:54am, 19th January 1995
  • 5:46am, 17th February 1995

7. What is preparation?

  • Building to an appropriate standard so buildings will withstand movement
  • Ensuring hospitals and emergency services and prepares, and that inhabitants practise for major distasters
  • Trying to forecast when an earthquake will occur

8. What plate boundary caused the earthquake? (HAITI)

  • The boundary between the North American and Caribbean Plates (destructive)
  • The boundary between the North American and Caribbean Plates (conservative)
  • The boundary between the North American and South American Plates (destructive)

9. Where was the earthquake of the Richter scale? (KOBE)

  • 7.2
  • 8.1
  • 4.3

10. Where was the epicentre? (HAITI)

  • Port au Provance
  • Port au Prince
  • Port de Prince

11. What is prediction?

  • Ensuring hospitals and emergency services and prepares, and that inhabitants practise for major distasters
  • Trying to forecast when an earthquake will occur
  • Building to an appropriate standard so buildings will withstand movement

12. What is the fault that caused the earthquake called? (KOBE)

  • The Nojima Fault Line
  • The Nagasaki Fault Line
  • The Moriyama Fault Line

13. How much damage was done? (KOBE)

  • $220 billion
  • $1 billion
  • $100 billion

14. What country took control of Port au Prince airport? (HAITI)

  • The USA
  • Russia
  • The UK

15. Short term responses included... (KOBE)

  • Emergency action plan introduced, shaking earth, industry and services destroyed, schools destroyed
  • Emergency shelters, putting out fires, hospitals being set up in schools, emergency services and army called in
  • Bulldozing unsafe buildings, putting out fires, emergency kits made compulsory, emergency shelters

16. What was installed so that foreign aid could be delivered to the country? (HAITI)

  • A floating airport
  • A new port
  • Floating hospitals

17. What do the three Ps stand for?

  • Prediction, protection and preparation
  • Prediction, preparation and progression
  • People, places and protection

18. When did the earthquake in Haiti occur? (HAITI)

  • Just before 5pm 12th January 2010
  • Just after 5pm 12th January 2010
  • 5pm, 12th January 2011

19. How many people were killed? (KOBE)

  • 5,000
  • 5,500
  • 6,000

20. Which two tectonic plates were involved in the Kobe earthquake? (KOBE)

  • The Pacific Plate and the Philippines Plate
  • The Philippines Plate and the Eurasian Plate
  • The African Plate and the Eurasian Plate