Take one minute to look carefully at the two photographs. Then, working with a classmate, write the answers to the following questions into your copy:
1. What do you think the people in Photograph 1 are thinking and feeling? 2. How would you feel if you lived in an area hit by a huge earthquake? 3. Photograph 2 shows looting in a supermarket after the earthquake. What is your opinion on this?
To watch a news report on the earthquake in Chile, go to YouTube and search for the video ‘Chile Earthquake 8.8’ (2:06).
1. Compare and contrast the two earthquakes in Nepal and Chile using the table below. Reproduce the table in your copy, and fill it in.
Country
Magnitude of earthquake Name of plate boundaries
Number of people killed and injured Social impacts
Economic impacts
1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.
1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.
2. What evidence is there to suggest that Chile is richer and more developed than Nepal?
