Question

Assess the importance of primary and secondary impacts of an earthquake in a developing country (8 marks)

Answer 1

Answer:

Primary effects of an eartquake can include the ground shaking, buildings collapsing, and the ground splitting. Secondary effects may include subsidance, tsunamis, fires, contamination of water supplies, gas leaks, and power outages.

These primary effects take a higher significance in comparison to the secondary effects of this as people will be affected physically and so will their property whereas secondary effects will involve people needing to be relocated and expense being paid on things like new buildings or repairs.