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1
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General facts

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  • very poor
  • area of conflict
  • badly constructed infrastructure
2
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What happened?

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  • 7.6 magnitude earthquake

- caused by movement along a crack in the plate at a destructive margin

3
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Primary impacts

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  • 80,000 deaths, mostly from collapsed buildings
  • hundreds of thousands injured
  • entire villages destroyed
  • 3 million made homeless
  • water pipelines and electricity lines broken, cutting off supply
4
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Secondary impacts

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  • landslides buried people and buildings as well as blocking roads
  • diseases and diarrhoea spread due to lack of clean water and hygiene
  • freezing winter conditions shortly after the EQ caused more deaths and delayed search and rescue
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Short-term reponses

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-help didn’t reach many areas for days to weeks
+tents, blankets and medical supplies were distributed (-but not to all areas affected)
+international aid and equipment was brought in (helicopters, rescue dogs), and teams from other countries

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Long-term responses

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+around 40,000 people have been relocated to a new town from the destroyed town of Balakot
+government money has been given to people to rebuild their homes
+training provided to help rebuild other buildings to be earthquake-resistant
+new health centres set up in the area