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