Tuberculosis, typhoid and cholera were diseases that developed in many cities killing thousands. Adding to these unbearable conditions, air pollution and malnutrition became a huge and deadly problem. Crime, Alcoholism and prostitution started becoming natural outcomes for individuals that were dealing with these ongoing problems. Also not only the living conditions were unlivable, working conditions were even worse. Depending on the hours throughout the workday, workers shifts could be doubled and workers could be working up to six days a week.
The initial impact was devastating which left about 300,000 people homeless out of a population of about 410,000. Many of the people were evacuated to nearby cities, and the others lived in makeshift tents on the beach of North beach. In fact years later in 1908 these refugee camps were still in operation. The overall cost of the damages was estimated at the time to be 400 million US Dollars (around 8.2 Billion present Dollars). The fires that were a direct result from the main shock and the aftershocks were just as damaging because of the uncontrollable burning from ruptured gas lines.
Dhamar, Yemen: Earthquake Crisis In December, 1982 a disastrous earthquake hit the city of Dahmar, Yemen. The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.0 Mb and resulted in 1,600 deaths and $2 billion in damages to the town (Lohman) . Living in these conditions made it especially hard for the villagers because of their lack of equipment, money, and man-power which forced them to live in ruins after the earthquake occurred. One major problem that caused damaged to the villagers of Dhamar was housing built on rocks and rock outcrops. These buildings were also constructed of rock rather than adobe that are in other parts of the country.
8 H October 26, 2012 1886 Charleston Earthquake In Charleston August 31, 1886, a devastating earthquake shocked millions throughout the country. Not only was this earthquake reported in South Carolina, but in distant places such as Boston, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illinois, Cuba, Bermuda, and many more. Why so many places? The earthquake recorded a 7.4 on the Richter scale. This tells us that it’s a powerful earthquake, reaching and being felt by farther away places.
There were so many deaths many could not be burried properly and were put in shallow graves which also helped the spread of the disease. Very few were immune to the disease, approximately two percent of the population. It effected ever class of people from clergymen to peasants. The sudden of death of many many people caused the prices of goods to sky rocket because people started to get scared to come in contact with outsiders and goods became scarce. The disease impacted the peasants more than any other class.
Over 1,800 people died and more than $81 billion dollars in damage was done to the cities. Life in New Orleans would never be the same after that day. The people of the United States just watched as Mother Nature destroyed years of hard work and labor in a matter of minutes and days. “The storm surge breached the city's levees at multiple points, leaving 80 percent of the city submerged, tens of thousands of victims clinging to rooftops, and hundreds of thousands scattered to shelters around the country”(Ted Jackson). “The American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, Common Ground Collective, Emergency Communities and many other charitable organizations provided housing, food, and water to victims of the storm.
This earthquake lasted an impressive five minutes and measured at a magnitude 9.0. The Eurasian Plate is dragged under the Pacific plate grinding under it and the upper plate compresses then it springs back when the earthquake hits causing the four mile deep mass of water upwards. When it collapses back, huge waves travel across the ocean as fast as a jet fighter pilot. The height and intensity varies as it travels faster in deeper water (Crane, 2011). At the Fukushima Power Plant there is a crisis because the nuclear reactors can’t be cooled
This tragedy has left more than 11,000 people dead with more than 15,000 people missing. The Earthquake and Tsunami have caused extensive structural damage in Japan. More than 100,000 buildings are reported damaged or destroyed, including damage to roads, railways, fires in many areas with a dam collapse. More than 4 million household in Northeastern Japan are left without electricity and 1.5 million without water, with electrical generators taken down. It does not end here.
The countries which were affected the most include Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. Some of the other countries that were affected were Somalia, Malaysia, South Africa, Madagascar and Kenya. The hardest hit area was the Aceh Province of Sumatra located in Northern Indonesia, which was the closest area to the earthquake that started the whole disaster. *when did it occur* On the 26th of December, at 7.59 am local time, an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale is recorded off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Buildings started shaking in Bangkok which was around 780 miles away from the earthquake.
By September 2008, the recorded number of dead was 69,227, with 374,643 injured, 17,923 missing and at least 5 million homeless. The earthquake occurred under some of the steepest and most rugged mountains in the world, the Longmen Shan also called the Dragon's Gate Mountains. These mountains are on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau and are steeper than the Himalayas. They are formed by the collision between the Indian and Asian tectonic plates that began about 55 million years ago. Two long faults in particular, running the length of the Longmen Shan, had slipped many millimetres during the last few hundred years.