Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sichuan Earthquake (12th May 2008) (China- LEDC)
- Causes
- 7.9 richter scale
- Destructive collision boundary
- Indian plate collided with Eurasian plate
- Pressure from collision was released
along the Longmenshan fault line
- Primary Effects
- $75 billion- worth of damages
- 69.000 died
- 18,000 missing
- 374,000 injured
- 80% of buildings collapsed near the epicentre
- 12.5 million animals died
- 1 million pigs died
- Landslides
- 5 million buildings collasped
- Chemical plants
collapsed in Shifang
- Power and water cut off
- Secondary Effects
- Hard to treat injured
- 11m homeless
- Farming affected
- Blocked roads and rivers could casue flooding
- People trapped
- Leaked toxic ammonia
- Immediate Responses
- Level 1 emergency took place
- People's Liberation Amry sent 200,000 soldiers to elp
- 20 helicopters for rescue and relief efforts
- International help teams from Japan, Russia and South Korea
- Tents sent in and land flattened so they could be erected
- Long Term Responses
- Unicef helped re-establish maternal and child health
services and helped build an immunization
registration system
- Production of tents increased to meet
3.3m needed
- Red Cross donations ( 1m after 2 weeks)
- 1m temporary homes built
- Chinese Government pledged $10m re-building fund
- Banks wrote off debts owed by survivors
who did not have insurance