Earthquake in China
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| South Western China after earthquakes |
An earthquake hit Yunnan and Guizhou China. At least 80 people are dead and a lot more are injured, thousands of houses were destroyed as well. The strongest earthquake had a magnitude of 5.6 and caused several landslides. One of the landslides killed 18 children and an adult at Tiantou Primary School. The school was buried by a landslide that was caused by the earthquakes that hit the area. The children that died normally don't have school this week and actually go to a different school but were at this school because they had to make up missing class from the last earthquake that hit and destroyed their school.
I read this article not long after we talked about direct and indirect causes. The earthquake indirectly caused the deaths of the children in the school because it caused the landslide. This article also relates to the Swiss cheese model of disaster. If the other earthquake hadn't caused them to miss class then the school would have been empty and no one would have died.
This is a video of the landslide.
I read this article not long after we talked about direct and indirect causes. The earthquake indirectly caused the deaths of the children in the school because it caused the landslide. This article also relates to the Swiss cheese model of disaster. If the other earthquake hadn't caused them to miss class then the school would have been empty and no one would have died.
This is a video of the landslide.
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