Kobe Japan Flashcards
Kobe is located on the southern side of the main island of ______ approximately __ miles west of ______on the North shore of ______ bay
Honshu 19 osaka osaka bay
Much of japan is ___________and this means that lots of the population live either side on the _____
mountainous coast
Three tectonic plates meet near to the coast of Japan. These plates are…..
Philippine, Pacific and Eurasian plates
The denser oceanic __________ plate is being subducted beneath the lighter continental ________ plate, forming a destructive plate boundary.
Philippine Eurasian
The two plates rubbing past each other causes ________ and ________ to build up and movement of the plates causes them to become _______, due to the jagged rock boundaries meaning the plates do not move smoothly.
Friction Pressure Locked
Eventually the pressure becomes too much and the plates jerk past each other releasing energy in all directions from the _____.
Focus
The Kobe earthquake happened on the __th _______ in the year ____.
17th January 1995
The Kobe earthquake measured _._on the Richter scale
7.2
The effects of the earthquake were worsened because japan (an MEDC who is rich enough to) ________ land from the sea to help create more space for its large population who are crammed into a small area because of the ___________ landscape.
Reclaim mountainous
The earthquake occurred at : am at a time when most people would be ________, meaning peoples reactions were slower and this therefore worsened the effects.
5:46am sleeping
The focus of the earthquake was __km below Awaji-shima an island in the Japanese inland sea. The island is near the city if Kobe, which is a ____ city.
16km port
The ground shook for only __ seconds
20
Large population of . million people
1.5
Japan has an earthquake ____________ _______ which educates people on how to react in the event of an earthquake
Preparedness system
Earthquake kits can be purchased from __________ stores and include ____, _____ and protective ________.
Department food water headgear
In ____ a law was passed so that buildings had to be made to a new more earthquake resistant standard called ____ _______.
1981 shin taishin
Kobe’s earthquake threat was seen as less than cities like _______. Because of this even with an earthquake prediction system the earthquake was not ________.
Tokoyo expected
Officials and government we’re ____ in response to the earthquake because they had no short term response set up.
Slow
More than ______ buildings were destroyed in Kobe, especially the older ______ buildings. They caught fire from broken gas pipes and the wooden walls burnt away and the slates (used in japan on the roofs to offer protecting from typhoons) falloff the roofs causing ______.
102,000 wooden injury
____-____ (depending on the source) were killed.
5000-6000
_____ people injured.
40,000
________ and _______ roads.
Cracked and twisted
_______express virtually destroyed, as well as most of the routes out of ______.
Hanshin kansai
Ground moved up to __cm horizontally and up to 1 meter vertically.
50 cm
The worst affected area was in _______ Kobe including the main docks and port area. This area is built on soft and easily moved rocks, especially the port itself which is built on __________ ground. Here the ground actually _________ and acted like jelly allowing buildings to topple sideways.
Central reclaimed liquefied
___km section of the bullet train network had to be closed because it was damaged by the earthquake.
130km
At the port cranes tilted or fell and ___ out of ___ quays where ships were moored were destroyed. Port buildings and their contents were Bradley damaged in many places.
120 out of 150
___,___ people made homeless.
400,000
No ___ available for heating due to burst pipes. People suffered for the -_*c weather
Gas -2*c weather
Lack of ____ and _____ left people starving and thirsty.
Food water
Chaos and __________ on roads.
Congestion
Only __%of railways were operational
30%
Industry affected, most industry was located on unsuitable reclaimed land, and so was damaged by ____________. Businesses such as _________ and Mitshibushi.
Liquefaction Panasonic
______ telephone lines damaged.
250000
Damages cost £___ million
£120 million
Rebuilding cost £__ billion
£70 billion
Japanese government dealt with the clean up almost completely _____ contributing almost two ______ of the £70 billion costs.
Alone thirds
Initial response was criticised due to the government refusing _____________ ____. However the overall clean up was fast in a global context.
International help
Railways fully operational by _______ ____.
August 1995
All utility and telecoms services fully working by ____ ____.
July 1995
1 year on the port was still __% operational however the badly damaged _______ express way was still closed.
80% Hanshin
4 years later ______ housing units had been constructed, however some people were still in _________ accommodation.
134,000 temporary
Parts of the Hanshin express way were rebuilt in ____.
1996
