Nepal and Chile CASE STUDY

Question 1

Nepal

What type of country is Nepal?

Answer 1

LIC

Question 2

Nepal

When did the Nepal earthquake happen?

Answer 2

25th April 2015

Question 3

Nepal

Where was the Nepal earthquake on the richter scale?

Answer 3

7.9

Question 4

Nepal

What type of plate margin was the Nepal earthquake on?

Answer 4

Destructive

Question 5

Nepal

What plates were involved in the Nepal earthquake?

Answer 5

Indo-Australian and Eurasian

Question 6

Nepal

How many people died in the Nepal earthquake?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 6

9,000

PRIMARY

Question 7

Nepal

How many people were injured in the Nepal earthquake?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 7

20,000

PRIMARY

Question 8

Nepal

How many people did the Nepal earthquake effect? What fraction of the population?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 8

8 million people (1/3)

PRIMARY

Question 9

Nepal

How many people we left homeless? (Nepal)

What type of effect is this?

Answer 9

3 million

PRIMARY

Question 10

Nepal

How many people needed food, water and shelter?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 10

1.4 million

PRIMARY

Question 11

Nepal

How many schools were destroyed and how many hospitals were overwhelmed?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 11

7,000

PRIMARY

Question 12

Nepal

How many people were killed by avalanches on Mt. Everest?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 12

19 (most, at one time, in history)

SECONDARY

Question 13

Nepal

How many people went missing after the avalanche in the Langtang region?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 13

250

SECONDARY

Question 14

Nepal

How many tents for the homeless were set up?

What type of response is this?

Answer 14

Half a million

IMMEDIATE/ SHORT TERM

Question 15

Chile

What type of country is Chile?

Answer 15

HIC

Question 16

Chile

When did the earthquake happen?

Answer 16

27th Feburary 2010

Question 17

Chile

Where was this earthquake on the richter scale?

Answer 17

8.8

Question 18

Chile

What type of margin was it on?

Answer 18

Destructive

Question 19

Chile

What plates were involved?

Answer 19

Nazca and South American plates

Question 20

Chile

How fast were the tsunami waves travelling over the Pacific ocean?

Answer 20

800km/h

Question 21

Chile

How many were killed?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 21

500

PRIMARY

Question 22

Chile

How many were injured?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 22

12,000

PRIMARY

Question 23

Chile

How many were effected?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 23

800,000

PRIMARY

Question 24

Chile

How many homes, schools, ports and hospitals were destroyed?

What type of effect is this?

Answer 24

220,000 homes
4,500 schools
53 ports
56 hospitals

PRIMARY

Question 25

# Chile What was the cost of the damage? | What type of effect is this?

Answer 25

30 billion USD | PRIMARY

Question 26

# Chile How many km of roads were damaged? | What type of effect is this?

Answer 26

1,500km, mainly by landslides | SECONDARY

Question 27

# Chile What disasters occured? | What type of effect is this?

Answer 27

Tsunamis Fires Landslides | SECONDARY

Question 28

# Chile Temporary repairs to route 5 highway were made within __ hrs | What type of response is this?

Answer 28

24 | SHORT TERM/ IMMEDIATE ## Footnote (so that aid could be transported)

Question 29

# Chile Within 10 days... | What type of response is this?

Answer 29

Power and water was restored to 90% of homes | SHORT TERM/ IMMEDIATE

Question 30

# Chile A national appeal raised __ | What type of response is this?

Answer 30

60 million USD | SHORT TERM/ IMMEDIATE ## Footnote (enough to build 30,000 emergency shelters)

Question 31

# Chile What did the government do a month later? | What type of response is this? ## Footnote (housing)

Answer 31

They launched a housing reconstruction plan to help 2,000,000 houses affected | LONG TERM

Question 32

# Chile The president announced it would take... | What type of response is this?

Answer 32

4 yrs for Chile to fully recover from damage to buildings and ports | LONG TERM

Question 33

What is cholera?

Answer 33

A disease caused from water contamination