Short and Long Term Effects From Earthquakes Flashcards
What are the short term effects of an earthquake?
Buildings collapsing, falling objects and the need to get people into open and away from danger.
Also to treat injured and rescue survivors.
In LICS what is the main from of aid?
From international countries that provide them with aid.
However, this increases the lag time before the help arrives.
What is the negative if short term effects aren’t addressed?
They can turn into long term effects.
Name some long term effects?
The scaring of losing homes, possessions, relatives and friends.
Temporary ‘tent cities’ may become semi-permanent residential areas - economic affects.
Name economic effects?
Re building local infrastructure and supply lines.
Worse in LICS where income from factories and commerce is low.
How true is it that the short term affects of an earthquake are mainly social while the long term effects are mainly economic?
Quite true.
Short term effects are concerned with rescuing people and possessions, working as a community to help each other and sharing resources.
Long term things people need is money. Social issues are still important but often people can only help out one another so much.
Housing/infrastructure/electricity all need money to rebuild.
