Volcanic eruption in an MEDC - Kobe, Japan

Question 1

What is our case study for an earthquake in an MEDC?

Answer 1

Kobe, Japan.

Question 2

What type of plate boundary is it on?

Answer 2

Destructive.

Question 3

Name the 3 plates that meet at Japan

Answer 3

Eurasian.
Phillippine sea.
Pacific.

Question 4

When did the earthquake occur?

Answer 4

January 17th, 1995.

Question 5

What was the strength of the Kobe earthquake?

Answer 5

7.2 on the richter scale.

Question 6

How many people died in Kobe earthquake?

Answer 6

5,500.

Question 7

How many buildings were destroyed or damaged?

Answer 7

190,000.

Question 8

What was the economic cost of the earthquake?

Answer 8

£80 billion.

Question 9

Why did the timing of the earthquake matter?

Answer 9

It was in the morning so people were in bed.

Some cooking breakfast which lead to fires - secondary effect.

Question 10

What did the Japanese government do?

Answer 10

Evacuated people to temporary shelters.

Question 11

What was people given?

Answer 11

Clothes.
Food.
Blankets.

Question 12

Fires were…

Answer 12

Put out.

Question 13

Who searched for survivors?

Answer 13

Fire and emergency survivors.

Question 14

Hospitals treated who?

Answer 14

The injured.

Question 15

What did Motorola do?

Answer 15

Maintained phone connections free of charge.

Question 16

Why were bulldozers brought in?

Answer 16

To clear fallen buildings.

Question 17

Road connections repaired within a…

Answer 17

Month.

Question 18

What was back in operation within a year?

Answer 18

Panasonic.

Question 19

Roads repaired is what type of response?

Answer 19

Long term.

Question 20

By January 1999 what happened?

Answer 20

134,000 houses had been constructed.

Some people still living in temporary homes.

Question 21

New buildings built and were what?

Answer 21

Modern and ‘earthquake proof’.

Question 22

Why were buildings built further apart?

Answer 22

To prevent the domino effect.

Question 23

High rise buildings have what?

Answer 23

Flexible frames.

Question 24

What do rubber blocks under bridges do?

Answer 24

Absorb shock-waves

Question 25

What do Japanese people do now?

Answer 25

Practice an earthquake drill every year.

Question 26

What date did water, electricity, gas, telephone services started fully working again?

Answer 26

July 1995.

Question 27

When were the railways back on track?

Answer 27

August 1995.

Question 28

A year after the earthquake what was happening?

Answer 28

The was working but the motorway was still closed.

Question 29

What was installed in the area?

Answer 29

More instruments, to monitor earthquake movements.