Nepal vs Chile

Question 1

Where was the Nepal earthquake?
What was it?
What year did it happen?

Answer 1

Kathmandu, Nepal, Southern Asia
7.9 magnitude earthquake in an LIC
2015

Question 2

Where was the Chile earthquake?
What was it?
What year did it happen?

Answer 2

South America
8.8 magnitude earthquake in a middle income country
2010

Question 3

What plates caused the Nepal earthquake?

Answer 3

Collision of Indo-Australian plate with Eurasian plate

Question 4

What plates caused the Chile earthquake?

Answer 4

Nazca plate subducting under the South American plate

Question 5

What are the primary effects of the Nepal earthquake?

Answer 5

• 9,000 deaths
• 200,000 injured
• 1.4 million needing food and shelter
• 3 million left homeless

Question 6

What are the secondary effects of the Nepal earthquake?

Answer 6

• $5Bn of repairs
• Landslides and avalanches in the Himalayas killed 19 people
• International airport Kathmandu became congested as aid arrived

Question 7

What were the primary effects of the Chile earthquake?

Answer 7

-500 deaths
- 12,000 injured
-4,500 schools destroyed
-Electric and water cut off, no communications
-Santiago airport badly damaged

Question 8

What were the secondary effects of the Chile earthquake?

Answer 8

-$30Bn of repairs
-Tsunami along west coast damaging villages

Question 9

What were the immediate and long term responses to the Nepal earthquake?

Answer 9

IMMEDIATE:
-Reliant in emergency aid from UK, India and China eg. Oxfam
-Field hospitals set up as hospitals overwhelmed
300,000 evacuated Kathmandu
LONG TERM:
-Homes and schools rebuilt with stricter building controls
-international conference to seek technical and financial support.

Question 10

What were the immediate and long term responses to the Chile earthquake?

Answer 10

IMMEDIATE:
-Emergency services acted fast
-Power and water restored to 90% homes within 10 days
30,000 emergency wooden shelters
LONG TERM:
-No foreign aid required
-Government reconstruction plan to help 200,000 households
-full recovery within 4 years.

Question 11

How many doctors per 100 people are there in each?

Answer 11

Nepal: 0.06
Chile: 1.09

Question 12

What is the population density for both Nepal and Chile (people per km squared)

Answer 12

Chile: 24 people per km squared
Nepal: 201 people per km squared

Question 13

Which was closer to their capital city? How far away was the epicentre?

Answer 13

Nepal: epicentre 50km away from Kathmandu

Question 14

GNI per capita for both Nepal and Chile

Answer 14

Nepal: 970 dollars
Chile: 14000 dollars