Homework Help Forum: geography

Posted by freddie on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 2:14pm.

Case study 1 Country:Japan, Date:17th Jan 1995, Area:Kobe, Type of settlement:City, Tectonic plates involved: Pacific plate and Eurasian plate, Richter Scale magnitude:7.3, Duration of earthquake:20 seconds, Estimate death toll:6500. Case study 2 Country:Indian, Date:1st Sept 1993, Area:Maharashara, Type of settlement:Agricultural, Tectonic plate involved:Indian plate (centre),Ricter Scale magnitude:6.2-6.5, Duration of earthquake:30 seconds, Estimate death toll:5000 (half of the population) My questions are write down most significant differences between the cases and most significant similarity between the cases. My answers are: differences = type of settlement, death toll, richter scale, country, different time of year. similarity = duration of earthquake, both countries by oceans. Please could you check this, also should I mention the plates although I am not sure what the answer would be. Thanks

• geography - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 2:17pm

  For the tectonic plates, would it be that the quake in Japan occurred where two plates come together, while the Indian quake occurred in the middle of a plate?

  
  

• geography - freddie, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 2:20pm

  thank you that would make sense, would you say the other answers are OK, in the difference or similarity.

  
  

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