Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Nepal Earthquake (primary effects (9000 people died (over 8 mill people…
Nepal Earthquake
primary effects
-
-
-
-
Electricity and water supplies, sanitation and communications affected
-
1.4 mill people needed food, water and shelter in days and weeks after earthquake
-
50% shops destroyed, affecting food supplies and livelihoods
Long term responses
-
-
-
thousands of homeless **people **rehoused, and damaged homes repaird
-
-
-
-
Immediate responses
Search and rescue teams, water and medical support arrived quickly from countries e.g UK, India and China
Helicopters rescued many people caught in avalanches on Mount Everest & transported supplies to villages cut of by landslides
-
-
-
300,000 people migrated to Kathmandu to seek shelter and support with family and friends
-
-
-
-
-
-
Cause of earthquake
destructive plate margin - Indo-Australian plate colliding with Eurasion Plate at rate of 45mm p year
collision and pressure on margin forming Himalayas, tension released in big earthquake
-
-
-
-
-
-
-