Kobe Earthquake case study

Question 1

when did it happen

Answer 1

17th January 1995 at 5:46am

Question 2

where did it happen

Answer 2

• Japan

- East of china

Question 3

what plates does It lie on

Answer 3

• pacific
• Eurasian
• philippene
• pacific ring of fire

Question 4

what did it measure on what scale

Answer 4

7.4 on the richter scale

Question 5

give 3 risks/ vulnerabilities

Answer 5

• people felt prepard due to wealth
• illusion of preparedness
• houses had tiles to withstand tyhoons but this resulted in death
• kobe hadn’t experienced an earthquake in 400 years

Question 6

give 6 responses to the earthquake

Answer 6

• lack of predicition
• buildings built after 1980 were earthquake proof
• emergency servives were trained
• people evacuated
• rations provided
• moterola maintained free phone connections
• insurance given to poor
• resuce teams searched for survivors days later
• 130,000 homes built
• buildings made with stricter regulations to avoid the ‘domino effect’
• annual practice drills

Question 7

give 2 immediate economic effects

Answer 7

• 90% of the port destroyed

- 12% of industry destroyed

Question 8

give 3 social immediate effects

Answer 8

• 35,000 injured
• railway lines buckled
• over 100,000 buildings destroyed
• 2 million with no electricity
• 82% of schools destroyed

Question 9

give 2 environmental immediate effects

Answer 9

• fires caused due to broke power lines
• water supplies cut off making it hard to put fires out
• liquefation

Question 10

give 2 economic secondary effects

Answer 10

• economy suffered $200 billion In damage
• large companies like Panasonic closed down for a while
• jobs created in reconstruction

Question 11

give 2 social secondary effects

Answer 11

• over 300,000 homeless
• refugees moved into temporary housing
• people moved into schools