Earthquakes - Case Study - created from Mind Map

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