L’Aquila

• 6.3 magnitude
• 300 deaths
• 1,500 injured
• 10,000 buildings damaged
• 60,000 homeless
• Water pipes burst
• Aftershocks caused more damage
• Land slides cause road blocks
• Camps set up with food water and medicine
• quick response as emergency services prepared
• Dogs, helicopters and good machinery used
• Free phones and sim cards handed out
• Government gave money to pay rent
• 6 people went to prison as buildings not designed well fraud
• Long term response was awful. Mafia links to home reconstruction and prime minister wasn’t supportive (free holiday)
• Cost $4b to repair everything
• 8km deep fault in Appenine Mountains