Chile's Earthquake: Pro-active Disaster Management helps in Quick Recovery
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Case Code: DISM004 Case Length: 18 Pages Period: 2010 Pub Date: 2017 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.500 Organization: - Industry: - Countries: Chile Themes: Disaster Preparedness |
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Chile
Chile was located on the western side of South America. Its great vertical extension came along the world’s ‘Ring of Fire’ (Refer to Exhibit I for Ring of Fire bordering the Peru-Chile trench). The Ring of Fire was a zone that had experienced several volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. The major part of the ring stretched along the 25,000-mile rim of the Pacific Ocean, including the Pacific Coast of Chile. Chile’s coastline, which stretched over 2600 miles in the north-south direction, was dominated by the collision between the Nazca Plate – an oceanic tectonic plate – and the South American continent. The tectonic plates shifted constantly, riding on hot rock. The tectonic plates of the Pacific Ocean ground against the plates of the surrounding continent. In a process known as subduction, an edge of one tectonic plate pushed under another, causing volcanic eruptions and earthquakes...
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