HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH LIVING IN EARTHQUAKES ZONES

Cause cracks to form in infrastructure

Roads, Bridges

Transportation can be disrupted

Unsafe to use damaged roads

Japen, Kobe

Places in city become inaccessible or difficult to reach

Rapture Gas Pipes (providing fuel to start fires)

Ability to spread quickly over large area

Eg. Kobe,Japan,1995-Extensive Fires Raged For 2 Days

Disrupt Supply of electricity , gas and water

Potentially affect a large area

Kobe, Japan in 2004

Vibrations snap pipes and break cables
causing outbreak of fire

Communication services are affected

TV broadcasts and telephone connections

Mass movements of rock, debris, and soil down a slope of land

When earthquakes occur on areas with steep slopes, many times the soil slips causing landslides

E.g. An earthquake hits Ecuador of 6.7-magnitude was particularly deadly for its size due to the major landslides that occurs only 20 mins after the earthquake hit

Furthermore, ashen debris flows caused by earthquakes can also trigger mass movement of soil

Travel long distances

Causes widespread destruction at coastal areas when sweep inland

cause widespread destruction to homes

people will lose their homes

severe shortage of housing

tohoku, japan

estimated no. of deaths : 28,000

Ache-Andaman Indonesia

estimated no. of deaths : 228,000

northern pakistan

estimated no. of deaths 86,000

sichuan, china

estimated no. of deaths : 100,000

haiti

estimated no. of deaths : 300,000

christchurch, new zealand

estimated no. of deaths : 180

chile

Estimated no. of deaths 600