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Sichuan Earthquake - Coggle Diagram
Sichuan Earthquake
Severity
87,000
dead
7.9
magnitude
2nd most costly quake
Lots of school buildings collapsed
$
137.5
billion
5
million homeless
10,000
children died
7,000
classrooms destroyed
Effects
Severe shaking
Scholls
Dam
Powerlines
Roads
Landslides in the mountain
Lots of barrier lakes created
Plates
Indian colliding with the Australian plate
Intra plate
quake
very shallow
90km
deep
local convergence between Tibet plateau
9m
raise in ground level
250km fault
Location and date
South
west
China
Near Himalayas
2008
Vulnerablity
High
risk earthquake zoned very populous
higher mortality due to them being
developing
counties
Contributing factors
Human
Zipingpu
Dam?
Building codes may not have been followed
Lots of older buildings which dont meet codes
Got to use steel but had to cut corners to keep up with economic growth