Geography case study - MEDC earthquake

Question	Answer
Where? When? Magnitude?	- L'Aquila, Italy - 6th April 2009 - Magnitude 6.3
Primary effects?	- 291 dead - 1,500 injured - 58,000 homeless - 88,000 unemployed - 11,000 buildings destroyed
Secondary effects?	- Aftershocks reach 5.8 on the richter scale - Streets are impassable due to collapsed buildings - Landslides, fires and rockfalls -$4 billion loss in the economy
Primary responses?	- 11,000 volunteers - 34,000 in homeless camps - Red-cross provide 10,000 meals a day - All tax payments are put on hold - Train companies provide carriages for people to sleep in
Secondary responses?	- Government pays for 1005 of the rebuilding costs - investigation into why the buildings were not earthquake proof in the first place - New town was funded for economic growth by the government

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