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Nepal and Chile CASE STUDY Flashcards

Earthquakes, case study 1

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Nepal

What type of country is Nepal?

A

LIC

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Nepal

When did the Nepal earthquake happen?

A

25th April 2015

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Nepal

Where was the Nepal earthquake on the richter scale?

A

7.9

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Nepal

What type of plate margin was the Nepal earthquake on?

A

Destructive

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Nepal

What plates were involved in the Nepal earthquake?

A

Indo-Australian and Eurasian

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Nepal

How many people died in the Nepal earthquake?

What type of effect is this?

A

9,000

PRIMARY

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Nepal

How many people were injured in the Nepal earthquake?

What type of effect is this?

A

20,000

PRIMARY

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Nepal

How many people did the Nepal earthquake effect? What fraction of the population?

What type of effect is this?

A

8 million people (1/3)

PRIMARY

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Nepal

How many people we left homeless? (Nepal)

What type of effect is this?

A

3 million

PRIMARY

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Nepal

How many people needed food, water and shelter?

What type of effect is this?

A

1.4 million

PRIMARY

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Nepal

How many schools were destroyed and how many hospitals were overwhelmed?

What type of effect is this?

A

7,000

PRIMARY

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Nepal

How many people were killed by avalanches on Mt. Everest?

What type of effect is this?

A

19 (most, at one time, in history)

SECONDARY

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Nepal

How many people went missing after the avalanche in the Langtang region?

What type of effect is this?

A

250

SECONDARY

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Nepal

How many tents for the homeless were set up?

What type of response is this?

A

Half a million

IMMEDIATE/ SHORT TERM

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Chile

What type of country is Chile?

A

HIC

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Chile

When did the earthquake happen?

A

27th Feburary 2010

17
Q

Chile

Where was this earthquake on the richter scale?

A

8.8

18
Q

Chile

What type of margin was it on?

A

Destructive

19
Q

Chile

What plates were involved?

A

Nazca and South American plates

20
Q

Chile

How fast were the tsunami waves travelling over the Pacific ocean?

A

800km/h

21
Q

Chile

How many were killed?

What type of effect is this?

A

500

PRIMARY

22
Q

Chile

How many were injured?

What type of effect is this?

A

12,000

PRIMARY

23
Q

Chile

How many were effected?

What type of effect is this?

A

800,000

PRIMARY

24
Q

Chile

How many homes, schools, ports and hospitals were destroyed?

What type of effect is this?

A

220,000 homes
4,500 schools
53 ports
56 hospitals

PRIMARY

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Chile

What was the cost of the damage?

What type of effect is this?

A

30 billion USD

PRIMARY

26
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Chile

How many km of roads were damaged?

What type of effect is this?

A

1,500km, mainly by landslides

SECONDARY

27
Q

Chile

What disasters occured?

What type of effect is this?

A

Tsunamis
Fires
Landslides

SECONDARY

28
Q

Chile

Temporary repairs to route 5 highway were made within __ hrs

What type of response is this?

A

24

SHORT TERM/ IMMEDIATE

(so that aid could be transported)

29
Q

Chile

Within 10 days…

What type of response is this?

A

Power and water was restored to 90% of homes

SHORT TERM/ IMMEDIATE

30
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Chile

A national appeal raised __

What type of response is this?

A

60 million USD

SHORT TERM/ IMMEDIATE

(enough to build 30,000 emergency shelters)

31
Q

Chile

What did the government do a month later?

What type of response is this?

(housing)

A

They launched a housing reconstruction plan to help 2,000,000 houses affected

LONG TERM

32
Q

Chile

The president announced it would take…

What type of response is this?

A

4 yrs for Chile to fully recover from damage to buildings and ports

LONG TERM

33
Q

What is cholera?

A

A disease caused from water contamination

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