Christchurch Earthquake

 

• How have the Christchurch earthquakes had positive and negative impacts on our city? 

• Houses and buildings were destroyed. schools were closed down. and

• 185 people died. The tourism in Christchurch was affected as people did not

• want to visit because of the quakes

• Newbuildings were built to replace damages. A positive during the earthquakes

• was that communities came together to help everyone. the country is now

• able to handle more earthquakes well because we have been through them,

• we have earthquake drills in schools to practice. A Lot of people needed

• to claim for insurance on their homes and the government had to spend a lot of

• money to rebuild the city. lot of people lost jobs or were to scared to work in

• the city.

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• What are some changes that citizens have made to prevent damage happening from potential future earthquakes?

• There is now a limit on the height of buildings in the city. We practice drills at school to prevent us being harmed. Follow new rules when building to be earthquake safe.

• Making the foundation of buildings stronger and the buildings that were still standing from the earthquake would have to be strengthened

Protests

Depression riots 1932

I strongly agree and support the depression protest because people were so suffered and frustrated.  Lots and lots of people lost their jobs and many of them went hungry.  The worse thing was that the government did't do more help to solve the problems. The people did't get good clothes food and shelters. Police were involved to stop the people. the wharves were shut down by the government. This caused a huge disaster for the economy of NZ because other countries could not trade in goods and services.