tectonic hazards

• italy - primary effects 


  308 dead

  1500 injured

  15,000 buildings collapsed (incl. historical sites)
• italy - secondary effects


  lots of unsafe buildings: reducing business, tourism and income

  70,000 homeless (house prices increased due to lack)

  aftershock triggered landslides and rockfalls
• l'aquila, italy

  april 6th 2009

  3am

  6.3 magnitude
• italy - immediate responses


  • hotels and train carriages used as shelter for 10,000
  • italian red cross provided water, hot meals and 40,000 tents
  • post office offered free phone calls so people could contact friends and family
• italy - long term responses


  • residents did not need to pay taxes in 2010
  • EU granted $55m
  • students given free public transport and exempt from uni fees for 3 years
• gorkha, nepal

  25th april 2015

  12pm

  7.8 magnitude
• nepal - primary effects


  9,000 dead

  16,000 injured

  50% of schools, 26 hospitals and historic buildings damaged
• nepal - secondary effects


  triggered avalanche on mt everest, killing 19

  tourism income decreased (was 9% of gdp)

  debris contaminated farmland
• nepal - immediate responses


  225,000 tents set up by red cross

  $126m international help raised

  WHO provided medical supplies to the worst affected districts
• nepal - long term responses


  heritage sites reopened by 2015 to encourage tourism

  expanded crop production and locals educated on how to repair irrigation channels

  23 areas needed rebuilding