- the magnitude was 7.0

"-the epicentre was in Lèogâne

- it happened on the 12th of January 2010

- the damaged was estimated at 14 billion U.S. dollars

BY MIA

- Tsunami waves struck the coast of South Chile.

- Tsunami waves stuck 10-15 minutes after the earthquake at 75 feet high.

- Destroyed buildings, left 2 million people homeless, 1655 people died and 3000 people injured.

- $75 million damage in Hawaii, $50 million in Japan, $500 thousand on the west coast of America and US$550 million in Chile.

By Holly Brown

- Northern California, San Francisco

- Magnitude of around 7.8

- Ignited several fires and all together caused around

$400,000,000 damage, caused around 3,000 deaths

- Epicentre was 2 miles west of San Francisco

- they used relief money to help rebuild their city and

Have set up permanent refugee camps.

Dom.

-The earthquake was originally given a magnitude of 8.3, but newer research has demoted it to a 7.9 or 7.8

-The epicentre was 2 miles west of San Fransisco in the Pacific Ocean

-Over 3000 people died, 28,000 buildings were destroyed and 225,000 of 400,000 people were leth homeless

-This earthquake also marked the start of the scientific study of the San Andreas fault line.

-By Lilla Anderson

- many buildings were either damagedor destroyed in the process

- there were about 3000 people injured, 2,000,000 homeless people

and around $550 million worth of damage in Southern Chile

- tsunami aftermath destroyed more of Southern Chile

- was an earthquake of 9.5

- epicentre was 60m below ocean floor, about 100 miles off the

coast of Chile out in the Pacific

- Even though San Francisco experienced a terrible Earthquake, the fires that raged on afterwards caused just as much, maybe even more, damage

- These fires resulted in 500 deaths

- The money needed to fix the damage was roughly eight billion dollars in today's money

- Half of the citizens became homeless and there became a high demand for housing

- The earthquake itself had a modern magnitude of 7.8 which meant that there was a lot of destruction including the destruction of housing, sewers and water mains and street car tracks

- Isabella

~ scientists explored theories and made measurements and observations

~ identified locations of faults and earthquake zones

~ significant changes in building codes to reduce impacts of future events

~ discovery that earthquakes are caused by faults and movement of the Earth's crust, not the other way around

~ basic understanding of earthquakes

Darcy

- debris continued to wash up on North American beaches for 2 yrs

- cooling system failure at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant 

- caused level 7 nuclear meltdown

- broke icebergs off the Sulzberger Ice shelf in Antarctica 

- recently unveiled a newly installed, upgraded tsunami warning system

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-Many people killed because of soilders during the catastrophe

-First big earthquake for San Fransisco, made them think about having better warning systems and what to do if it happens

-Mackenzie

-Inhabitable Buildings

- Tsunami with waves that reached heights of 11.5 m

-The earth was forever changed by the enormous amount 

of energy released from below

-Landsides occurred from large mountains

1,655 people died in Eatgquake

• 45,700 buildings were destroyed

• 144,300 buildings damaged

• 29,000 structures destroyed in Miyagi

• 12,000 structures in Iwate

• 300 hospitals damaged with 11 being completely destroyed

• Police agencies confirmed 15,889 deaths and 6,152 injured

By Keiko

- 141,000 houses destroyed

- US $9.9 billion estimated value of losses

- About US $14 billion raised internationally

- Tsunami warning centre created.

300 billion dollars material damage

Nuclear plants damaged

Tsunami

Radiation leaks

By Chloe Keeffe

- No deaths

- Minor liquefaction along the fault line

- Minor damage to the Trans-Alaska pipeline system but because

the pipeline is along the fault line it had been made stronger

so that it wouldn't be damaged.

- Caused the deaths of roughly 500 people

- Tsunami went through the city, causing considerable damage to architecture and buildings

- Brick buildings collapsed from the strain of the wave

- Wooden buildings caught fire and burned for hours

- Fires caused the most deaths, more so than the tidal wave

By Cara