What equipment would be used in an earthquake aid effort?
2007-03-01 06:20:39 · 5 answers · asked by jake 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The aid package consists of foodstuff, sanitary equipment, blankets and tents.
Some responses to an earthquake in El Salvador:
The UK Government has pledged more than £600,000 to provide medicines, sanitation and clean water supplies to the ravaged central American region.
Oxfam flew out its first shipments of water purification and sanitation equipment to El Salvador, in order to ensure a safe water supply in the affected area.
The Department of International Development has pledged £200,000 to the charity to pay for this, and a further £300,000 to the Pan-American Health Authority (PAHO) for medical supplies.
Switzerland is to send an initial contribution of nearly £70,000 in emergency aid as part of a package which will also include food, drinking water and medicine.
Spain is to send a search and rescue team of 75 specially trained firefighters and 24 dogs to help in the search for survivors buried or trapped.
The Spanish Red Cross said it would also contribute nearly £50,000 of financial assistance to help survivors and rebuilding work.
Taiwan, which established its own rescue team following a devastating earthquake in 1999, is also sending its first overseas mission.
Taipei has offered over £120,000 in emergency relief funds to El Salvador, and a group of 20 to 30 rescue workers is preparing to leave for the country.
2007-03-01 06:32:40 · answer #1 · answered by Confused 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
After an earthquake there is a lot of debris.
You would need dogs to locate the missing and dead.
Bulldozers to help remove the debris, along with dump trucks to haul it away. Tents for displaced people to stay in. Trucks bringing in fresh water. First aid equipment. People to volunteer to help with the clean up or to help with the placement of the displaced.
2007-03-01 14:42:39 · answer #2 · answered by Catie I 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mobile hospital equipment, ready to eat meals, blankets, etc; thermal devices to search for survivors under rubble, cadaver dogs to aid in recovery of deceased victims;
2007-03-01 14:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by gagirl2c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would think, dozers to remove the rubble; shovels, drills, hammers to break windows. And then also of course the medical: masks to protect from excess dust; stretchers... and later, water purifying pills, emergency meals, blankets. . . psychologists, depending on the magnitude of the earthquake.
2007-03-01 14:30:10 · answer #4 · answered by Maitreyi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
all kind of machines that could make room for the rescue teams (that work with dogs)
2007-03-01 14:29:30 · answer #5 · answered by Vlado 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋