Nepal and Chile CASE STUDY Flashcards
Earthquakes, case study 1
Nepal
What type of country is Nepal?
LIC
Nepal
When did the Nepal earthquake happen?
25th April 2015
Nepal
Where was the Nepal earthquake on the richter scale?
7.9
Nepal
What type of plate margin was the Nepal earthquake on?
Destructive
Nepal
What plates were involved in the Nepal earthquake?
Indo-Australian and Eurasian
Nepal
How many people died in the Nepal earthquake?
What type of effect is this?
9,000
PRIMARY
Nepal
How many people were injured in the Nepal earthquake?
What type of effect is this?
20,000
PRIMARY
Nepal
How many people did the Nepal earthquake effect? What fraction of the population?
What type of effect is this?
8 million people (1/3)
PRIMARY
Nepal
How many people we left homeless? (Nepal)
What type of effect is this?
3 million
PRIMARY
Nepal
How many people needed food, water and shelter?
What type of effect is this?
1.4 million
PRIMARY
Nepal
How many schools were destroyed and how many hospitals were overwhelmed?
What type of effect is this?
7,000
PRIMARY
Nepal
How many people were killed by avalanches on Mt. Everest?
What type of effect is this?
19 (most, at one time, in history)
SECONDARY
Nepal
How many people went missing after the avalanche in the Langtang region?
What type of effect is this?
250
SECONDARY
Nepal
How many tents for the homeless were set up?
What type of response is this?
Half a million
IMMEDIATE/ SHORT TERM
Chile
What type of country is Chile?
HIC
Chile
When did the earthquake happen?
27th Feburary 2010
Chile
Where was this earthquake on the richter scale?
8.8
Chile
What type of margin was it on?
Destructive
Chile
What plates were involved?
Nazca and South American plates
Chile
How fast were the tsunami waves travelling over the Pacific ocean?
800km/h
Chile
How many were killed?
What type of effect is this?
500
PRIMARY
Chile
How many were injured?
What type of effect is this?
12,000
PRIMARY
Chile
How many were effected?
What type of effect is this?
800,000
PRIMARY
Chile
How many homes, schools, ports and hospitals were destroyed?
What type of effect is this?
220,000 homes
4,500 schools
53 ports
56 hospitals
PRIMARY
Chile
What was the cost of the damage?
What type of effect is this?
30 billion USD
PRIMARY
Chile
How many km of roads were damaged?
What type of effect is this?
1,500km, mainly by landslides
SECONDARY
Chile
What disasters occured?
What type of effect is this?
Tsunamis
Fires
Landslides
SECONDARY
Chile
Temporary repairs to route 5 highway were made within __ hrs
What type of response is this?
24
SHORT TERM/ IMMEDIATE
(so that aid could be transported)
Chile
Within 10 days…
What type of response is this?
Power and water was restored to 90% of homes
SHORT TERM/ IMMEDIATE
Chile
A national appeal raised __
What type of response is this?
60 million USD
SHORT TERM/ IMMEDIATE
(enough to build 30,000 emergency shelters)
Chile
What did the government do a month later?
What type of response is this?
(housing)
They launched a housing reconstruction plan to help 2,000,000 houses affected
LONG TERM
Chile
The president announced it would take…
What type of response is this?
4 yrs for Chile to fully recover from damage to buildings and ports
LONG TERM
What is cholera?
A disease caused from water contamination
