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Haiti and Christchurch case studies - EARTHQUAKES - Coggle Diagram
Haiti and Christchurch case studies - EARTHQUAKES
causes
similarites
Conservative plate boundary (plates sliding past each other in different diretions )
on the edge of the plate
shallow focus earthquake
Haiti - 13km depth
Christchurch - 5km depth
both where at a fault (a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock)
Primary effects
Haiti
160,000 people were killed
approximately 300,000 people were injured
90% of the city's buildings were destroyed
things like airports and harbours where rendered unusable or unsafe
a lot of rubble to have to clear up
the main prison was destroyed allowing 4,000 inmates to escape
Christchurch
185 people were killed (people from more thn 20 countries died in the earthquake)
115 of those people dies when the 6-storey Canterbury Television building collapsed
approximately 2,000 people suffered major injuries
over 50% of the city's buildings were damaged
secondary effects
Haiti
400,00 people still live in refugee camps, 3 years after the earthquake
a cholera outbreak led to the loss of ovre 9,000 lives
slow distribution of resources resulted in violence with looting reported
Christchurch
-10,000 homes had to be demolished as they were unsafe
landslides
could not host the 5 Rugby World Cup matches as planned
Liquefaction (when soil behaves like a liquid) created amuddy slush that took months to clear up
immediate responses
Haiti
appeals for emergenct aid
able-bodied survivors extracted the living and the dead form the rubble of many collapsed buildings