Sichuan Earthquake

Sichuan Earthquake

1. Effects

   • Social Effects
     • Lost of Job, Home
     • Destruction of infrastructures
     • Possibilities of other hazards
   • Environmental Effects
     • Loss of Animal Habitat
     • Pollution threat
     • Landslides , ground failures
   • Economic Effects
     • Loss of money for repairing damaged
     • Shop and business are destroyed
     • Damage of communication and transportation
   • Non-Anti-Earthquake Housing
   • Not Prepared for earthquake

2. Causes

   • The earthquake was caused by the collision of Indo-Australian plate and Eurasian
   • Along the Longmenshan faults
   • Then pressure is built up during the collision
   • A earthquake with an epicentre at Dujianyang was created
   • Along the mountain range, landslides occured

3. Responses

   • Immediate Responses
     • Helicopter resigned to help
     • Increasing number of tents
     • Thousands of army men deployed
     • Troops parachuted to help
   • Long Term Responses
     • Japan, Korea and Russia helped
     • 10 million rebuilding fund
     • Red Cross donates food and medicine
     • 1 million temporary shelter built

4. Background Information

   • Date- Monday 12 May 2008
   • Time:2.28pm
   • Magnitube:7.9
   • Epicentre in Sichuan
   • cost nearly 120M
   • 87,000 dead
   • 5M left homeless
   • 370,000 injured
   • 12.5M livestock dead

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