What are primary and secondary effects?

Answer 1

A primary affect is what happens during and throughout the day of the earthquake. Earthquake primary effects may include:

• landslides
• trees collapsing
• buildings collapsing
• people buried in rubble
• school children trapped under collapsed schools
• Poorly built buildings toppling over
• Limbless crying orphans impaled on twisted metal poles.

and secondary affects are the consequences of the primary effects, or the things that happen later on from the earthquake. Some secondary effects may include:

• homelessness
• need of emergency housing
• households were inaccessible by road due to landslides
• food will be lost
• Disease spread, sourced from people drinking the dirty, contaminated water
• Cracks in the ground and walls.
• buildings split in two.
• Lots of rubble that takes years to move

Answer 2

Typical effectsPrimary effects

• Physical damage- Can range anywhere from bridges, cars, buildings, sewer systems, roadways, canals and any other type of structure.
• Casualties- People and livestock die due to drowning. It can also lead to epidemics and diseases.

Secondary effects

• Water supplies- Contamination of water. Clean drinking water becomes scarce.
• Diseases- Unhygienic conditions. Spread of water borne diseases
• Crops and food supplies- Shortage of food crops can be caused due to loss of entire harvest.
• Trees - Non-tolerant species can die from suffocation

Tertiary/long-term effects

• Economic- Economic hardship, due to: temporary decline in tourism, rebuilding costs, food shortage leading to price increase etc, especially to the poor.

Answer 3

A primary effect of a volcano is the ash that is emitted from the volcano and a secondary effect is homelessness.

Answer 4

The Primary effect: the immediate consequences of the earthquake. For example the collapse of buildings and the derailing of trains.

Answer 5

the collapsing of building with people inside will cause deaths trees will fall causing deforestation. The shaking of the ground. Homelessness of so many people

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

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