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kobe - local hazardous setting
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- 1on what date did an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 devastate the city of kobe ?17 january 1995
- 2where is kobe ?in Japan
- 3the 'Great Hanshin Earthquake' had an epicentre on 20km from the central parts of the city and was the costliest urban disaster up to that point in time - what were the impacts of this ?- economic damage = $100 billion
- 6000 people killed
- 1/4 mill made homeless - 4how did the economic character of community affect the impact of the hazard?Japanese felt they were well prepared as HIC = so could afford to spend money on several forms of risk management = when hazard hit = unprepared due to scale of disaster and its complexity posed tremendous economic and logistical problems
- 5how did the economic character of the community affect the response to the hazard ?- as kobe has not experienced serious EQ in 400 years = people / authorities not maintained sufficient emergency supplies.
- many commentators have accused the Japanese gov of poorly managing the aftermath of the event - refused help from foreign govs - 6how did the social character of the community affect the impact of the hazard?- illusion of preparedness among the people and the city authorities and that they were caught unaware by the severity of the event.
- emotional problems to overcome with trauma of a shattered community in which people were struggling to readjust - 7how did the social character of the community affect the response to the hazard ?- gov didnt encourage enough community volunteers = slow response
- people unprepared in reality = struggling to readjust to hazard - 8how did the political character of the community affect the impact of the hazard ?government = poor disaster management
- 9how did the political character of the community affect the response to the hazard ?- Japanese gov of poorly managing the aftermath - not encouraging enough community volunteers and by refusing offers of help from foreign govs
- japanese gov issued a doc after the EQ setting out its policy towards such disaster-stricken areas = 'disaster Management in japan' - 10what were the short term - responses ?- electric power, gas, water, telecommunications and major road and rail links restored within months of event
- within several months, 48,000 housing units had been supplied to take care of the homeless who made up to 20% of the city pop after event
- almost all of the debris resulting from the event was removed within a short time - 11what did the gov consider to be the most important lessons to be learned from the EQ and its aftermath- improved seismic resistance of existing buildings = older buildings retrofitted
- improve fire fighting capacity = vast no. of buildings were damaged by fires
- protecting life-lines = backup systems in place where ever possible
- community participation = city council now understands that in order to reduce future risks community needs to be better informed through EDUCATION AND AWARENESS PROGRAMMES
- disaster resistant measures
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