Restless Earth

Question 1

Pakistan responses

Answer 1

1st week £450 million raised
Port officials robbed help and aid
Refused helped of Indian chinook helicopters
Poor infrastructure
Margella towers weren’t built properly
U.K. and Norway urban search and rescue teams sent to same place

Question 2

Seattles responses

Answer 2

Buildings weren’t destroyed, great infrastructure
Trained urban search and rescue teams had correct equipment and knew where to go
Red amber green on buildings
24 hours later the city was back up and running

Question 3

Indian Ocean tsunami

Answer 3

Destructive plate boundary, Eurasian and Indian
Magnitude of 9.1
Wave game at 500mph

Question 4

Indian tsunami effects

Answer 4

Economic, it ruined the fishing industry
250,000+ people died and it rose in the weeks after
Environment, houses destroyed leaving 2 million homeless
Roads and infrastructure destroyed

Question 5

Indian tsunami short term responses

Answer 5

£450,000 million was donated within a week

Emergency food, sheets, water and tents from around the world

Question 6

Indian tsunami long term responses

Answer 6

£7 billion donated
Rebuilt homes
Rebuilt fishing and tourist industry
Early warning systems