The restless earth - Earthquake in a poor region - Kashmir, Pakistan-India (case study)

Question 1

what year did the earthquake take place?

Answer 1

2005

Question 2

what does Kashmir lie on?

Answer 2

destructive collision plate margin

Question 3

what are the plates doing?

Answer 3

the Indian plate is moving northwards towards Eurasian plate due to convection currents in the mantle below

Question 4

what are both of the plates?

Answer 4

continental

Question 5

what did the earthquake measure on the Richter scale?

Answer 5

7.6

Question 6

how long did the ground shake for when the seismic waves were released?

Answer 6

30 seconds

Question 7

where was the earthquake shaking worst at?

Answer 7

Muzaffarabad

Question 8

primary effects - what happened to all of the buildings?

Answer 8

they all collapsed

Question 9

primary effects - how many deaths were there?

Answer 9

80 000 deaths

Question 10

primary effects - how many injuries were there?

Answer 10

100 000 injuries

Question 11

primary effects - how many people were left homeless?

Answer 11

3.3 million

Question 12

primary effects - due to the time of day, what happened?

Answer 12

lots of school children had just started school so 6700 schools collapsed killing thousands of school children

Question 13

primary effects - happened to the bridges, roads and water pipes?

Answer 13

bridges collapsed and roads and water pipes were destroyed

Question 14

secondary effects - what did the massive landslides do?

Answer 14

buried villages, cutting off remote areas - aid did not come for three months

Question 15

secondary effects - what did lack of clean water lead to?

Answer 15

diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera and more deaths amongst children/old

Question 16

secondary effects - what did winterisation mean?

Answer 16

weather turned colder so more people died (pneumonia) as still in tents

Question 17

secondary effects - how long did the aftershocks continue for?

Answer 17

a month causing further damage and hindering aid

Question 18

Immediate responses - what did the rapid response team arrive with?

Answer 18

sniffer dogs and specialist equipment within 24 hours

Question 19

Immediate responses - what did the helicopters do?

Answer 19

flew injured people to hospitals in Islamabad

Question 20

Immediate responses - how does the numbering system work?

Answer 20

local medical teams prioritised peoples needs, the lower the number, the sooner you get rescued

Question 21

Immediate responses - what did the Indian Red Cross supply?

Answer 21

21,500 blankets, 300 kitchen sets and medical supplies

Question 22

Immediate responses - what happened to the unaccompanied children?

Answer 22

they were taken to SOS children’s emergency shelter in Islamabad for family tracing using a central database

Question 23

Long term responses - what did the government except?

Answer 23

massive aid funding from 60 countries

Question 24

Long term responses - what did the ‘New Balakot’ mean?

Answer 24

a town constructed for 40 000 people to replace one of the worst hit towns, 10km from original now but still not completed in 2011

Question 25

Long term responses - how many schools opened one year later?

Answer 25

500