Earthquakes - Case Study - created from Mind Map

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Immediate Response

USS Carl Vinson - 600 000 emergency food rations, 130 000 litres drinking water, 19 helicopters

US naval ship - fully equipped floating hospital - Port-au-Prince - treated injured survivors

Dominican Republic - first country to give aid - water, food, heavy-lifting machinery

hospitals made available for survivors

Secondary

By Aug - 20 million cubic metres of rubble - thousands bodies = impassable

outbreak of disease e.g. cholera in camps - killing thousands

Port-au-Prince morgues - overwhelmed - tens of thousands of bodies buried - minimise disease spread

Haiti = 7.0 on Richter scale - 12th Jan 2010 - North American plate sliding past Caribbean

Primary Effects

1700 = dead & 1000 trapped in rubble

Bridges along Bullet train = destroyed

Hanshin Expressway collapsed - crushed cars

180 000 houses = destroyed

Evacuation - Osaka

Long-Term

Mitsubishi industry closed - trade at port - disrupted

Re-building houses & Repairing water supplies = expensive

8 months - rail services returning to normal

Kobe, Japan 7.2 on Richter scale - 17th Jan 1995 - Phillipines plate sunk under continental Eurasian

Long-Term

Humanitarian aid - countries pledged funds, sent rescue teams & engineers

Temporary schools created

Primary Effects

1.5 million - homeless 250 000 destroyed

Port-au-Prince - main harbour - damaged = slowed down transporting of aid

5000 schools & 50 hospitals destroyed

Main jail - collapsed = hundreds criminals escaped - spread fear to survivors

Water pipes burst - contaminated water = massive shortages for drinking

Prediction, Protection & Preparation

Prediction

Protection

Preparation

Japan monitors earth tremors across country - latest tech.

Strange animal behaviour - China - Haicheng evacuated in 1975

earthquake-proof buildings - don't collapse/crush people

windows shutters close automatically - detects tremors - prevents falling glass

new buildings - open areas - people to assemble if evacuated

Transamerica Pyramid - San Francisco - rubber shock absorbers in foundations - absorb tremors & reduce shaking

earthquake drills - Japansese schools

earthquake kits

hospitals regularly practise for disaster - trained/ready for real earthquake

Earthquakes - Case Study