Kobe Earthquake case study Flashcards

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1
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when did it happen

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17th January 1995 at 5:46am

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where did it happen

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  • Japan

- East of china

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what plates does It lie on

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  • pacific
  • Eurasian
  • philippene
  • pacific ring of fire
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what did it measure on what scale

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7.4 on the richter scale

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5
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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
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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
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give 2 immediate economic effects

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  • 90% of the port destroyed

- 12% of industry destroyed

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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
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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
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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
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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
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