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Japan 2011 Earthquake
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 earthquake. Undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan occured on Friday 11 March 2011. The epicentre approximately 70 kilometres
Social impacts
- 15,896 deaths
- 6,157 injured
- 2,537 people missing
- More than 163,000 people were in shelters around the country following evacuation.
- At least 46,027 buildings have been destroyed, washed away or burnt down
Economic impacts:
- Material damage from the earthquake and tsunami is estimated at about 25 trillion yen ($300 billion).
After the Earthquake:
- Several hundred thousand people were in shelters
- Often with limited or negligible supplies of food or water,
- Tens of thousands more remained stranded and isolated in the worst-hit areas as rescuers worked to reach them.
Haiti 2010 earthquake
After the earthquake
- 19 million cubic metres of rubble and debris in Port au Prince
- Increased air and water pollution
7.0 Magnitude Quake struck near Port au Prince
The initial shock registered a magnitude of 7.0 and was soon followed by two aftershocks of magnitudes 5.9 and 5.5. More aftershocks occurred in the following days
Economic impacts:
- Over 188,383 houses were badly damaged
- 105,000 were destroyed
- $13.34 billion: Aid allocated by international agencies,
- 300,000 commercial businesses destroyed
Social impacts:
- 3,500,000 people were affected by the quake
- 220,000 people estimated to have died
- 300,000+ people were injured
- 1.5m people became homeless
- 4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed
Sichuan
Social impacts:
- 69,227 dead,
- 17,923 missing,
- 374,643 injured,
- Somewhere between 4.8 million and 11 million people were homeless.
Magnitude: 7.9
the quake was caused by the collision of the indian-Australian plate and the Eurasian plate.
- $146.5 billion was arranged to be spent over the 3 years from 2008-2011.
- Direct economic losses were calculated to be $125.6 billion
- 391 dams were damaged
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Indian Ocean Tsunami:
The indian ocean tsunami occurred on the 26th of december 2004 with an epicentre off the west coast of northern sumatra with a magnitude of 9.2. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake caused by a rupture along the fault between the burma and indian plate.
Social impacts:
- 230000 people killed
- 650,000 people seriously injured
- 1.7 million people left homeless
After the tsunami
- There was a massive cholera outbreak which lead to many secondary deaths
- Lots of tourism stopped which lead to declines in economies
- Roughly £8.7 billion in aid and reconstruction was delivered to nations affected
Economic impacts:
- A total of $2920 million damage
- $8.6 billion raised by charities like TEC and Oxfam
- A total of 14 countries affected
- Lots of tourism stopped which lead to declines in economies