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Kashmir Earthquake
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Mind Map on Kashmir Earthquake, created by gilese68 on 02/13/2014.
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Kashmir Earthquake
Details
Kashmir Province, Northern Pakistan
08.50 (local time), 8th October 2005
7.6Mw on the Richter scale
Epicentre located 80 miles North East from Islamabad
The focus was 10km below the surface
147 aftershocks after the main earthquake
Social Impacts
87000 people died from the disaster
More than 3 million people were affected
84% of the people affected live in rural areas
Further deaths caused by landslides
400,000 people live above the winter snow line
Suffered in temperatures as low as -15c
One year after the earthquake a third of people had no home
Illness was caused due to a lack of clean drinking water
A large proportion of deaths were among children
Children trapped in their schools
Economic Impacts
Half of all building in the local town destroyed
A reduction in office and factory space
Utilities badly damaged
Infrastructure destroyed
80% of all crops in the region are destroyed
50% of all arable land destroyed in the region
100,000 cattle were killed
All maize crops were lost, the mills to friend maize were also destroyed
Costs
Rebuild: $3.5 billion
Agriculture: $220 million
Economic: $5 billion
0.4% reduction in GDP
Short Term Response
Several days to get emergency aid in
Some areas could only be reached by helicopter
The international response was slow
Two million people depended on food aid
1.7 million people were living in tents
The UN held talks about the earthquake on the day it happened
Long Term Response
The government help an aid donation conference
Earthquake resistant schools were constructed
Building regulations have been improved
Setting up of the 'Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority'
92% of destroyed housing has now been reconstructed
1885 new schools have been built
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