Earthquake Case Study

Question 1

What magnitude where the earth quakes

Answer 1

7.8

Question 2

When was the earthquake in New Zealand

Answer 2

14 November 2016

Question 3

What is New Zealand’s GDP

Answer 3

40000 dollars

Question 4

What plates and boundary was new Zealand on

Answer 4

Destructive/constructive
Pacific subducted under Australian plate

Question 5

NZ. How many died

Answer 5

2

Question 6

NZ. How many injured

Answer 6

50

Question 7

NZ. How many homes destroyed

Answer 7

10,000s

Question 8

NZ. How many in emergency housing

Answer 8

60

Question 9

NZ. How much in damage

Answer 9

8.5 billion

Question 10

NZ. What resources were cut off

Answer 10

Water, sewage, power

Question 11

NZ. How many landslides

Answer 11

100,000

Question 12

NZ. What was blocked, what did it cause

Answer 12

Rivers, roads lead to flooding

Question 13

NZ. How high was tsunami waves

Answer 13

5m, debris 250m inland

Question 14

NZ. What warning was given out

Answer 14

Tsunami

Question 15

NZ. How many in emergency shelter

Answer 15

100s

Question 16

NZ. How many people were evacuated

Answer 16

200

Question 17

NZ. How long did it take power to be restored

Answer 17

A few hours

Question 18

NZ. What came from abroad

Answer 18

Warships with supplied

Question 19

NZ. How much from district council

Answer 19

5.3 million

Question 20

Nz. How long for roads to be repaired

Answer 20

2years

Question 21

NZ. What relief was set up

Answer 21

Earthquake

Question 22

NZ. What was built in march 2017

Answer 22

Permanent water main earthquake resistant

Question 23

Np. Where was it

Answer 23

Gorkha, Nepal

Question 24

No. What date

Answer 24

25 April 2015

Question 25

No. There gdp

Answer 25

$690

Question 26

No. Plate boundary

Answer 26

Destructive info Australian under Eurasian

Question 27

No. Magnitude

Answer 27

7.8

Question 28

Np. How many died

Answer 28

9000

Question 29

Np. How many injured

Answer 29

22000

Question 30

Np. How many buildings destroyed

Answer 30

800 000

Question 31

Np. How many left homeless

Answer 31

4 million

Question 32

No. Cost of damage

Answer 32

$5 billion

Question 33

No. How many people without clean water

Answer 33

2 million

Question 34

Np. How many died to avalanches on Everest

Answer 34

18

Question 35

Np. What prevented emergency aid

Answer 35

Blocked mountain roads

Question 36

Np. How many died from typhus

Answer 36

13

Question 37

Np. Who sent teams to help rescue

Answer 37

India and china

Question 38

Np. What prevented rescue teams

Answer 38

Lack of tools machinery

Question 39

Np. What made it hard to treat injured

Answer 39

Damaged roads

Question 40

Np. What charities provided medicine food

Answer 40

Oxfam

Question 41

Np. What did the Red Cross set up

Answer 41

Emergency shelter for 130000 families

Question 42

Np. How much did world bank finance in projects

Answer 42

$500 million

Question 43

No. How long for roads to reopen

Answer 43

2 years

Question 44

Np. What was reopened in June 2015

Answer 44

Heritage sites to encourage tourists to

Question 45

Np. What supply is now restored

Answer 45

Water

Question 46

Np. What are NGO doing

Answer 46

Increasing resident resilience