Haiti 2010
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- Created on: 17-01-16 15:41
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- Primary effects
- Haiti 2010
- Secondary effects
- A year later people were still living in camps so cholera spread.
- Responses
- The first country to give aid was the Dominican republic.
- Effects
- 300,000 injured
- Industry
- The production of clothing is the single largest sector in the Haitian economy
- Cruise ships started to visit, new hotels were being built. then it sopped after the earthquake
- Buildings
- 250,00 residential buildings and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed
- The presidential palace, National assembly building, the Port-au-Prince cathedral were all damaged in the earthquake.
- Cause
- 12th January 2010 at 4:53 pm
- North american and Caribbean plate
- Secondary effects
- Social
- 1 million homeless.
- Evan Monsignac was trapped under the rubble for 27 days
- Economic
- 7.8 billion damage
- 80% of people already below the poverty line
- Haiti didn't have the infrastructure for the rescues. e.g. roads
- Environmental
- 60% of government buildings damaged
- Haiti 2010
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