Sichuan Earthquake 2008 - created from Mind Map

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Causes

Effects

Responses

Backgrounds

Economic

Social

Environmental

$137.5 billion spent on re-building

1/3 of the buildings collapsed in Wenchuan

Cost $191 million

80% of the buildings collapsed in Beichuan

7,000 classrooms collapsed

When the earthquake ruined all the crops that caused the price of pork and grain to increase steeply

pork supplies decreased by at least 5%.

A cargo train carrying 13 petrol tanks derailed in Hui County, Gansu, and caught on fire after the rail was distorted

391 dams were damaged by the quake

Oil prices dropped over speculation that the demand from china would fall

In Shifang, chemical plants collapsed killing hundreds and releasing toxic ammonia

Communications such as telephones were cut off.

Killed around 70,000 people

4,800,000 people left homeless

374,176 injured,

18,222 listed as missing

100 schools collapsed killing 10,000 children

The earthquake ruined most crops and food

Landslides.

6 pandas escaped from their enclosures at the Wolong National Nature Reserve after they were damaged, 2 pandas were injured, one panda was found dead

Rivers were blocked by landslides forming ‘quake lakes’ 34 lakes were formed in total. Risk of flooding when the dams collapsed.

Long Term

Immediate/Short Term

hinese government pledged a $10 million rebuilding fund and banks wrote off debts owed by survivors who did not have insurance

China requested help from Japan, Russia and Korea

The redcross donated food and medicine

million temporary homes built

Banks wrote of debts of survivors who did not have insurance

China’s government quickly deployed 130,000 soldiers and other relief workers to the stricken area

20 helicopters assigned to rescue

Troops parachuted in to help

Calls made to increase the number of tents

The Sichuan Earthquake occurred on Monday 12 May 2008 from 2.28pm to 2.31pm

The magnitude was 7.9

It occurred in the South East of China

t is on the boundary between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate, on the Longmenshan fault line.