There are many effects and responses when earthquakes happen. In Kobe in 1995 the earth quake caused a lot of damage.
Some of the damaged caused were short term effect such as when a house falls down that is immediate and can just be a short term effect. Other short term effects include businesses being ruined as the building could collapse and they would most likely lose all of the work inside. Roads can also bend and buckle under the pressure of the shakes, which is cause an aftershock, which is like a ripple when it expands from the start point of the earthquake. Furthermore, gas and water pipes burst and power lines can be pulled down so when fires started in the wooden houses there was a shortage of water and people would be unable to put out the fire.
There are also many different effects that are long term. One of these is your home collapsing because if five month later you still don’t have a house you could become ill because of lack of food and warmth. A road collapsing is also a long term effect because when help is needed no one can get in or out of the city. People might have suffered burns during the fire but if the roads have collapsed they would be unable to get to a hospital for treatment.
The main features of short term response are evacuations to get away from the seriously affected area so they don’t get more hurt, if they already are. Another feature of this is getting rescue teams in and if the roads are blocked, flying help in.
There are also long term responses such as finding somewhere to stay if your house was destroyed if you have nowhere to stay you could develop hypothermia from the cold at night. Another long term effect I rebuilding everything as it will take time which is another reason to find somewhere else to live
for the long term. Also you would need to fix the power cables so you could get power to fix everything else.
footage here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxitIewLv9c
Some of the damaged caused were short term effect such as when a house falls down that is immediate and can just be a short term effect. Other short term effects include businesses being ruined as the building could collapse and they would most likely lose all of the work inside. Roads can also bend and buckle under the pressure of the shakes, which is cause an aftershock, which is like a ripple when it expands from the start point of the earthquake. Furthermore, gas and water pipes burst and power lines can be pulled down so when fires started in the wooden houses there was a shortage of water and people would be unable to put out the fire.
There are also many different effects that are long term. One of these is your home collapsing because if five month later you still don’t have a house you could become ill because of lack of food and warmth. A road collapsing is also a long term effect because when help is needed no one can get in or out of the city. People might have suffered burns during the fire but if the roads have collapsed they would be unable to get to a hospital for treatment.
The main features of short term response are evacuations to get away from the seriously affected area so they don’t get more hurt, if they already are. Another feature of this is getting rescue teams in and if the roads are blocked, flying help in.
There are also long term responses such as finding somewhere to stay if your house was destroyed if you have nowhere to stay you could develop hypothermia from the cold at night. Another long term effect I rebuilding everything as it will take time which is another reason to find somewhere else to live
for the long term. Also you would need to fix the power cables so you could get power to fix everything else.
footage here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxitIewLv9c