This is another chance for you to look through the resources from the lesson about the impact of earthquakes in LEDCs.
How do earthquakes happen?
Click here for an outstanding animation from the BBC
Where is Bam?
Here is a Google Earth file (if you have it installed) If not, see the location in Google Maps
What was Bam like before the earthquake in 2003?
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There is a good description of Bam before the earthquake at Wikipedia. Download a movie (9.5mb) here (source page) and look at some superb photographs in this gallery.
What was the impact of the earthquake?
- Compare the two satellite images here
- A BBC News report on the earthquake.
- Another BBC report describes the relief effort
- The Wikipedia article also describes the impact of the earthqake
- This BBC article considers the long term impacts
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sophie // February 3, 2007 at 1:57 pm
this was very helpful for my extended task thankyou but try making it a little more simple
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