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earthquakes and
tsunami
- kope, japan, 1995
- rich part of the world
- richer scale 7.2
- on a destructive plate margin
- primary effect
- 200,000 buildings were
destroyed
- roads and railway lines were destroyed
- secondary effect
- large fires broke out due
to broken gas pipes
- 5500 people died; 300,000 were made homelesss
- Pakistan, 2005
- poor part of the world
- 79,000+ people killed.
100,000 injured. 3.3
million left homeless.
- 7.6 Richter scale
- destructive plate margin
- primary effects.
- over 1 million buildings were destroyed
- rural areas because inaccessible by road
- secondary effect.
- disease spread due to
lack of water/
healthcare
- 73, 000 died; 3 million were
made homeless
- causes of earthquak
- 3) stored energy is
released in just seconds
and travels outwards
from the epicentre as
shock waves
- 2) suddenly, the crustal
rock breaks underground at
a weak point in he rock
(focus)
- 1) plates are locked together
by friction, and pressure builds
over many years
- boxing day tsunami
- 2004, 26 december
- richer scale, 9.2
- destructive plate margin
- this effected a lot of country's
- effects
- 11 countries, including
Indonesia, sir lank, India,
and tialand were affected.
- 1.7 million people were made homeless
- 230,000 people were confirmed dead or missing
- a series of tsunamis spread out from the
site of the earthquakes, travelling
500mph across the India ocean.
- as the waves approached
the coast line, they slued
and rose to 30m high.