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Sichuan Earthquake
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A mindmap including effect, information, responses and causes of the Sichuan Earthquake.
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Sichuan Earthquake
Effects
Social Effects
Lost of Job, Home
Destruction of infrastructures
Possibilities of other hazards
Environmental Effects
Loss of Animal Habitat
Pollution threat
Landslides , ground failures
Economic Effects
Loss of money for repairing damaged
Shop and business are destroyed
Damage of communication and transportation
Non-Anti-Earthquake Housing
Not Prepared for earthquake
Causes
The earthquake was caused by the collision of Indo-Australian plate and Eurasian
Along the Longmenshan faults
Then pressure is built up during the collision
A earthquake with an epicentre at Dujianyang was created
Along the mountain range, landslides occured
Responses
Immediate Responses
Helicopter resigned to help
Increasing number of tents
Thousands of army men deployed
Troops parachuted to help
Long Term Responses
Japan, Korea and Russia helped
10 million rebuilding fund
Red Cross donates food and medicine
1 million temporary shelter built
Background Information
Date- Monday 12 May 2008
Time:2.28pm
Magnitube:7.9
Epicentre in Sichuan
cost nearly 120M
87,000 dead
5M left homeless
370,000 injured
12.5M livestock dead
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