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1/22/2021
Explain what sort of problems a country might experience shortly after a natural hazard
- e.g. Kobe - Earthquake 1995 in Japan.
- Kobe is a city housing 1.4 million people.
- Gas and electricity pipes were fractured - causing fires.
- Final death toll +4,500 and +25,000 injured.
- Water, gas, and electricity were cut off in many homes.
- A loss of water meant it was difficult to put out fires.
- Most people lived in temporary shacks which were destroyed by fire easily.
- The Earthquake measured 6.9 on the Richter scale.
- The disaster relief plans were inadequate.
- Sanitation was another major problem because there was no running water.