Earthquakes In Poor And Rich Countrys Flashcards
Preparation
RICH
Laws on construction standard and volunteers trained to help rescue operations.
Rich: Place Date Size Cause
L’aquila, Italy
6th of April 2009
6.3 Richter scale
Movement along destructive plate margin
Primary affects
Remember 4 points
RICH
290 deaths hundreds injured
Thousand of buildings damaged and destroyed
Thousands of people made home less
A bridge was collapsed and water pipe was broken
Secondary effects
Rich
After shocks hampered rescue efforts
Fires in some building caused more damage
Broken water pipe caused land slide
Immediate response
Rich
Camps were set up for homeless people
Army and rescue services were sent to rescue survivors
Cranes and diggers were used to remove rumble
International teams with rescue dogs help to look for survivors
Government payed money to pay for rent and gas and electricity were suspended.
Long term response
Rich
Italian prime minister promised to build a new town.
Investigation to why modern buildings can’t with stand earthquakes.
POOR: Place Date Size Cause
Kashmir Pakistan
8th October 2005
7.6 on the richter scale
Movement along a destructive plate margin
Preparation
Remember 3
Poor
No local disaster planing
Buildings no earthquake resistant
Communications poor
Few roads badly constructed
Primary effects
Remember 5
Poor
80,000 deaths
Hundreds of thousands of people injured
entire villages and thousands of buildings of buildings destroyed
3 million people made home less
Water pipe lines electricity lines damaged
Secondary effects
Remember 3
Poor
Landslides buried buildings and people and blocked access roads and cut off water and electricity supply’s
Diseases spread due to little clean water
Freezing winter conditions after earthquake caused more deaths and meant rescue and re-building was difficult
Immediate response
Remember 3
Poor
Help didn’t reach many for days or weeks
There was no help from emergency services
Medical supply’s and tents were distributed with in a months but not to all areas
International aid and equipment was brought in
Long term response
Remember 4 points
Poor
Around 40,000 people have been relocated to a new town
Government money has been given to people so they can rebuild there homes them selfs
training has been given to people to rebuild buildings as earthquake resistant
New Health centres
