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earthquakes (Gorkha earthquake, Nepal 2015 (responses (immediate (nine…

- - - - relief then sent rapidly
      - government asked for help
      - nine functioning helicopters
        
        could only reach badly injured
      - a 60-strong team from china
      - nothing for first 24 hours
      - a 30-bed mobile hospital from Pakistan
      - India sent in military to assist with rescue efforts
    - - Many tourists cancelled trips to Nepal
        
        lost vital income
      - struggled to get back on its own feet
      - one of the poorest countries in the world
      - relied on 450 million of international aid to rebuild
  - - - 50/1400 remained standing
      - no houses left in trekking village of Lang tang
      - severe damage to
        
        infrastructure
        
        houses
        
        roads
      - 24000 classrooms collapsed
      - 8800 died
      - 23000 injured
      - 7.8 magnitude earthquake
    - - avalanche on Mount Everest
        
        destroyed Khumbu
      - engulf base camp killing at least 19 climbers
      - landslide blocked roads and hampered the aid effort
      - any who survived left with no power, communications or clean water
      - food shortages widespread-1,5 million affected
      - 10 billion damage cost
      - disrupted tourism-economic
- - - - people ran for the hills when they heard warning
        
        earthquake warning
        
        tsunami warning
      - government asked for international help
      - 116 countries and 28 international organisation responded
      - military forced to dead in mass graves
      - japan declared state of emergency
        
        following problems at 6 nuclear reactors
      - 140000 residents evacuated
    - - 55 nuclear reactors taken offline
      - power blackouts across japan
      - Toyota and Sony stopped producing
      - other companies permanently relocated abroad
      - Japans food exports were limited
      - year later homes needed for 330000 who were still homeless
  - - - 1800 houses destroyed-Fukushima
        
        dam failed
      - 56 bridges/26 railways washed along east coast
      - triggered nuclear melt down in 3 reactors
      - earthquake triggered tsunami
      - massive slabs of ice to calve-tsunami
      - 300 billion cost of damage
    - - coastal areas of Sendai were all destroyed
      - skyscrapers in Tokyo swayed
        
        damage limited-earthquake resistant design
      - 127000 buildings completely destroyed
      - oil refineries in Ichihara and Sendai ablaze
      - school of 121 lost 84 students and teachers
      - 4.4 million northeast japan households left without electricity
      - 1.5 million without running water
      - 1100 sections of traintrack damaged
      - only 4 trains derailed