Kashmir Flashcards
1
Q
Preparation
A
No local disaster planning
Buildings not designed properly
Poor communications and roads
2
Q
Primary affects
A
80,000 dead hundreds of thousand injured
Entire village is destroyed thousands of buildings collapse
3 million homeless
3
Q
Secondary effects
A
Landslides buried people
Disease spread
4
Q
Immediate responses
A
Took weeks
Rescued by hand without emergency service
International aid
5
Q
Long term
A
40,000 to new town
Gov rebuild homes
Training to make Buildings resistant
Health centres set up
6
Q
Basic information
A
8th October 2005, 7.6 Richter scale
