Zusammenfassung der Ressource
2008 Sichuan Earthquake
- Causes
- Magnitude 8.0 earthquake
- Earthquake lasts for 3 minutes.
- Tremors also felt in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Macau, Thailand,
Vietnam, Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Russia.
- Indo-Australian plate & Eurasian plate sliding past each other. This
plate boundary could be seen at 龙门山 Fault.
- Studies say the earthquake was caused by a dam.
- Effects
- Apporoxiametly 87,150 people were killed
- 4,800,000 people were homeless
- $137.5 billion was spent on
damaged buildings
- 80% of the buildings were destroyed
- Many rivers and roads were blocked by landslides
- A lot of people were injured.
- 2 aftershocks
- Since schools were poorly built, a lot of children were killed at schools.
- Responses
- On Children's Day, parents come to schools and mourn their prays at their
children who died. Students who survived also contributed. Parents also
stayed behind to take part like cooking for the students.
- Also, parents blamed the locals for killing their children.
- International Aid (for the first time in history that China did this)
- Transportation links are all down (electricity, water, gas, WiFi)