Kashmir – 2005

• Kashmir


  Pakistan, Region located on the destructive plate margin with the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate
• Earthquake in Kashmir


  2005
• Earthquake in Kashmir


  • 80,000 people died
  • 100,000s injured
  • 3 million people homeless
  • Water pipes and electrical lines broken
  • Loads of landslides - burying buildings, blocking roads
  • Diseases spread
  • Cost £5 billion
  • £3.5 billion rebuild
• Poor roads and damaged roads

  Made it difficult for rescue operations - weeks
• Responses to the earthquake

  1. Tried to deal with it themselves, aid was needed

  2. Aid was distributed in around a month

  3. Pakistan government set up the Earthquake reconstruction and rehabilitation authority to co-ordinate activities with international agencies

  4. 40,000 relocated

  5. The government provided money and training to help rebuild things after the earthquake

  6. $5.8 million was given as foreign aid