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Kashmir Earthquake - LEDC Description Responses Kashmir located in the north of Pakistan, and sits on destructive plate Shortis Term: is being under the Eurasian plate.  subducted Tents, blankets and medical supplies were distributed within a month, but not to all areas It is on a thrust fault. affected. Happened on the 8th October 2005 at 8:50am  International aid and equipment was brought in as well as teams from other countries. Measured 7.6 on the Richter scale and a maximum Mercalli intensity of V  The Indian Red Cross distributed 21,500 blankets 300 kitchen sets and medical supplies 27th October 2005 there had been 978 aftershocks after the earthqua  40,000 people relocated to a new town. Richter scale.  The border between Pakistan and India was opened to allow emergency supplies in The focus was 26km (Shallow Focus) and 19km away from the closest city, Mu Strong earthquake aftershocks also triggered additional landslides of unstabl Long Term: endanger villages in the region.

Help didn’t reach many areas for days or weeks. People had to be rescued by hand or by emergency services.  Schools rebuilt and teachers trained in counseling  building laws will be tightened  Government money given to people to rebuild their houses themselves.  Training has been provided to help make more buildings earthquake resistant.  New health centres created. Impacts 

Primary Management  Whole villages and thousands of buildings were destroyed. Preparation  Areas that were 25km from the epicentre were still affected, No disaster in place. nearlyplanning 25% of put buildings collapsed and 50% were severely Theredamaged. was no evacuation procedure in place Lack deaths of education earthquake preparation - literacy rate in the state is around mostlyon caused by collapsed buildings.  80,000 54.46%. (Asphyxiation)  Water pipelines and electricity lines were broken, cutting Prediction off supplies. Although scientists that earthquakes are likely to occur in this area they do not of the time of know the earthquake most students were  Because knowand exactly when buried under the collapsed buildings school many were  The ground shifted by more than 5m in some areas of Protection Kashmir. 2 Buildings were not designed be earthquake resistant.  There were two major landslidestothat affected 0.1km - one in Muzaffarabad Houses were structurally poor because they couldn’t afford better buildings. and one in the Jhelum Valley.  Government buildings in areas such as Muzaffarabad were structurally unsound and were Secondary also damaged.  Cost of around $5billion in total.  In urban areas people lost jobs as offices and shops were damaged  Power lines were brought down which caused disruption to the economy  3 million people made homeless  Infectious diseases spread due to unclean water.  Freezing winter conditions caused more casualties and meant rescue and rebuilding operations were difficult.  Jhelum valley landslide was the biggest-it was 1km wide and the debris reached 2km from the top of the slide.  Debris created a dam at the bottom of the valley and blocked off 2 rivers where they joined...