Chile Earthquake 2010

Chile Earthquake 2010

1. Facts

   • 27th February 2010
   • felt in Sao Paulo, Brazil
   • 3:45am
     • everyone was in bed
       • building collapse is a higher risk
   • 90 seconds long
   • epicenter was 70 miles from Conception
     • Conception is Chile's city
     • focus was 22 miles deep in the pacific
   • there was an aftershock of 6.6
   • magnitude: 8.8
   • on a subduction zone
     • Nazca and South American Plates
       • plates move 80mm each year
   • best run economy in latin America
   • 46th richest nation
   • triggered an earthquake in Antartica
   • the earthquake was so powerful it shifted the earth off its axis
     • shortening the day by 1 millisecond
     • moved Buenes Aires 10ft west

2. Response

   • 50,000 homes built in June 2012
   • 100 temporary villages
     • housed 4,000 families
     • still there one year on
   • main infrastructure has been fixed (highways, airports etc)
   • 222,000 homes subsized
     • 74% complete by 2014
   • political agenda has changed towards reconstruction
     • earthquake proofing

3. Environmental Impacts

   • 212 bridges collapsed
   • 40ft tsunami
     • travelling at 40mph
   • ring road in Santiago destroyed
   • fires
     • 14 story building

4. Social Impacts

   • 220 homes destroyed
   • 523 died
   • 497 missing
   • looting of shops
     • army brought in
     • looters shared supplies
     • curfew
   • lower quality of life
   • 17 hospitals
   • 3,700 homes
   • no electricity in capital for 1 week
   • lack of fuel water and food

5. Economic Impacts

   • oil mines stopped working for a few days
   • scare of earthquake in copper industry raised the price of copper temporarily
     • copper mines benefitted
   • predicted growth was 5.5%
     • growth was 0%
   • $30 billion in damages
     • $30 billion is 18% of GDP
   • biochemical lab caught fire