Kobe Earthquake case study Flashcards
1
Q
when did it happen
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17th January 1995 at 5:46am
2
Q
where did it happen
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- Japan
- East of china
3
Q
what plates does It lie on
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- pacific
- Eurasian
- philippene
- pacific ring of fire
4
Q
what did it measure on what scale
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7.4 on the richter scale
5
Q
give 3 risks/ vulnerabilities
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- people felt prepard due to wealth
- illusion of preparedness
- houses had tiles to withstand tyhoons but this resulted in death
- kobe hadn’t experienced an earthquake in 400 years
6
Q
give 6 responses to the earthquake
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- lack of predicition
- buildings built after 1980 were earthquake proof
- emergency servives were trained
- people evacuated
- rations provided
- moterola maintained free phone connections
- insurance given to poor
- resuce teams searched for survivors days later
- 130,000 homes built
- buildings made with stricter regulations to avoid the ‘domino effect’
- annual practice drills
7
Q
give 2 immediate economic effects
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- 90% of the port destroyed
- 12% of industry destroyed
8
Q
give 3 social immediate effects
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- 35,000 injured
- railway lines buckled
- over 100,000 buildings destroyed
- 2 million with no electricity
- 82% of schools destroyed
9
Q
give 2 environmental immediate effects
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- fires caused due to broke power lines
- water supplies cut off making it hard to put fires out
- liquefation
10
Q
give 2 economic secondary effects
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- economy suffered $200 billion In damage
- large companies like Panasonic closed down for a while
- jobs created in reconstruction
11
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give 2 social secondary effects
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- over 300,000 homeless
- refugees moved into temporary housing
- people moved into schools