Effects of the recent earthquake is china?

Question

yes this is home work help... i am righting about earthquakes and i am having problems finding individuall facts about this earthquake .. this is what i would like if possible

nine effects such as fire, gas line break, chemical spills, disease, flooding, death toll, buildings destroyed.

and if you have any ideas for solutions like prevention or help to be sent w.e that would be nice to

Answer 1

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Answer 2

i don't have 9 effects.

however, living in calif, earthquakes are a concern.

if you look around the world at the results of earthquakes, you often see stone or brick rubble.

masonry doesn't do well in earthquakes.

in fact, in many quake prone areas, building codes specifically prohibit their use.

however, in many countries, there are no codes.

and brick and stone are more durable when subjected to rain, termites, etc.

it's unfortunate that each specific building material has both benefits, and drawbacks, there aren't any that are good for everything.

however, i often think that, if i'm going to have my house fall in on me, i'd rather it be wood than stone.

it's probably just psychological, wood beams in the head are likely just as deadly as stone, but it just seems better.

Answer 3

All the china ware was broken.

Answer 4

Chemical spills- 80 tons of ammonia  spilled

http://environment.about.com/b/2008/05/1...

animals- while initially reported the pandas were all safe in a reserve, later reports said 3 were missing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24697163/

death toll- while not everyone has only one child, many families do because of the single child law.  With the death of some many children because the earthquake happened in the early afternoon, whole communities of children are gone.

structural damage (homes only)- an earlier answer mentioned how California has building codes and laws for earthquake preparedness, and many other countries do not-- here is an article, though it has probably been updated and revised http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24812230/

Flooding is also talked about in the last article mentioned above

Land slides- closing off towns with limited access http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2...

Lists of articles

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036059/

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/news/ch...

http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcovera...

(top article at above site is flooding)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/asia...

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/World/China;_yl...