Bohol Earthquake

1) An earthquake that has occurred in the Philippines is the the Bohol earthquake in 2013. Known as one of the deadliest earthquakes to ever have happened in the country of a magnitude of 7.2 killing more than 150 people and destroying century old churches and affecting more then 3 million families in Central Visayas.

2)This was a shallow earthquake, cause by the reverse faulting.

3)This was a dip -slip or reverse fault earthquake. It might have occurred because of a previously undiscovered fault line, transecting Bohol and running parallel to the islands through the north west coast.

4) The Richter scale magnitude of the earthquake was 7.2

5) The impact on the biosphere was a big one because more then 3 million people were affected by the earthquake, and it had damaged many of the heritage churches an estimated $1.1 billion dollars to repair. Affected many peoples houses and the hospitals.

b) The lithosphere was impacted with cracked roads to broken bridges,and massive landslides occurring after. Trees fallen down and people and animals with no where to go.

c) The economic impact was tremendous with lots of things to fix and needing money in order to do so.

d) The impact on the infastructure was major cracks in roads like seen in the picture below, and broken bridges.