Earthquake - Haiti January 12th 2010
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- Created on: 28-04-13 12:42
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- Earthquake - Haiti January 12th 2010
- Haiti is situated between North and South America, the Western Atlantic, the Carribbean
- Cause
- Friction built up between North American and Caribbean plates causing a slip releasing powerful seismic waves
- Effects
- Primary
- Affected around 3 million people, 250,000 deaths and 300,000 injuries
- 250,000 homes destroyed, 1.5 million homeless
- Severe damage to all hospitals, airports, ports and roads
- Secondary
- Over 3,333 people died in outbreak of cholera
- Cost of damage = £30 billion
- 2 years on, 20% of rubble cleared, 500,000 still homeless, millions still in poverty
- Primary
- Why were effects so bad?
- Nature of EQ
- Epicentre only 9 miles away from capital where 2 million lived
- Magnitude 7
- Occured at 5pm
- 6 large aftershocks
- No large EQ for over 200 years
- Focus = 6 miles deep
- Country's background
- 70% of people live on less than $2 per day, half unemployed
- Not fully recovered from previous hurricane
- Violent conflict
- LEDC
- Levels of prep
- Building quality poor
- Country lacked heavy lifting equipment 'pancaked buildings'
- Poor ability of country to cope after
- Electricity supplies cut off
- Port out of use
- Roads destroyed
- No communication lines
- No doctors/medicine
- 1 working runway
- Roads slow and blocked
- Staff of aid agencies died
- Nature of EQ
- Responses
- Immediate
- People dug through bare rubble with hands to try and rescue people
- Only a fraction of aid promised actually arrived
- Supplies of food, water, fuel and medicine started to arrive after a week
- 400,000 homeless people relocated to organised camps
- Over 40 foreign search and rescue and medical teams arrived
- Long term
- 1.5 million people set up homes in the street
- 16,000 US troops deployed to issue emergency aid and repair the airport
- After 2 years, 20% rubble cleared and 70,000 homes built
- Immediate
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