GCSE Geography, Haiti earthquake case study
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- Haiti, Earthquake in a poor country
- Primary impacts
- 230,000 people killed
- 1 million made homeless
- 250,000 homes destroyed
- 30,000 buildings including the presidential palace, airport and port were destoryed
- Electricity and communications stopped
- Magnitude 7.0 earthquake
- Secondary effects
- 1 in 5 people lost their job
- Aftershocks
- Disease
- Main road blocked for 10 days
- Immediate responses
- $100 million in aid given by the US
- People slept and treated wounded on the streets
- Mass graves dug
- Long term responses
- 1 million people still without houses after 1 year, many living in aid camps
- Temporary schools, communications and shelter set up
- Buildings in Port Au Prince began to be rebuilt
- Water and sanitation supplied to 1.7 milliom
- Primary impacts
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