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What has shocked this BBC reporter? Watch the video without sound and write down your ideas in your books Nepal Earthquake: An on-going crisis Learning Objective: To explain the causes and impacts of the Nepalese earthquake What do you already know? Quick Task: In your PSHCE books make a list of bullet points explaining all the information you already know about the earthquake in Nepal Where was the earthquake? Key words: First of all, write down the key words you - Asia think we should use in your books - Nepal - West of Mount Everest - North of India - In the Himalayas Sentence starter The earthquake on the 25th of Your task: Using the map and Google Earth, April 2015 happened in . . . describe the location of the earthquake So what caused the earthquake to happen? How could this cracked egg be a clue as to what caused the earthquake? So what plate boundary was the earthquake on? Collision Plate Margins The plates are being forced together at great pressure so the rocks crumble together and form massive mountains, like the Himalayas where the earthquake was. How are earthquakes measured? The Richter Scale • The power of an earthquake is called the magnitude. • Earthquakes are measured by a seismometer and graded according to the Richter Scale. This earthquake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale The focus and the epicentre • Earthquakes start at the focus. • The epicentre is the point on the Earth’s surface above the focus, and is the first place to shake. • The focus can be shallow or deep. Challenge What effect will the position of the epicentre have on the damage caused by the earthquake? Are all earthquakes the same? What does this have to do with earthquakes? - I think that this relates to earthquakes because . . . - I think the pencil is . . . - I think the point where the pencil snaps How are earthquakes formed? • Underground tectonic plates push past each other, building up pressure. • This pressure is suddenly released along faults (cracks in the crust), sending out a huge pulse of energy. • This travels out in all directions as earthquake waves. Challenge: How does this relate to the pencil? Summarise this information into your own words. What were the effects of the earthquake? Challenge Make a key and using three different colours, categorise the social, environmental and economic impacts of the earthquake As we read through the newspaper article, watch the video and study the images, write down a minimum of 10 effects of the earthquake What were the effects of the earthquake? What were the effects of the earthquake? What were the effects of the earthquake? What were the effects of the earthquake? What were the effects of the earthquake? What were the effects of the earthquake? What were the effects of the earthquake? Aftershocks have continued in the hours after the quake hit; the locations of all of the earthquakes are shown with orange dots. What has been the ‘Relief Effort’ do far? What do you think we mean by ‘Relief effort’? This is the response and help offered by countries around the world. Short task: List as many different types of relief as you can think off Relief Effort Carry out some internet research to write down the name of the countries that offered relief and what they provided. How is Dulwich College Shanghai helping? Plenary- Your report on the earthquake Both you and your partner will be given 30 seconds each to explain all the new things you have learned about the earthquake in Nepal. Remember not to interrupt your partner and that when you are speaking, the aim is to talk for the whole 30 seconds!