Haiti Earthquake
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- Created on: 07-01-17 18:27
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- Haiti Earthquake
- Background Information
- 16:53pm
- 12th January 2010
- 7.0 on the Richter Scale
- 5.0 follow up earthquakes
- Epicentre 15km SW of Port-au-Prince
- Conservative Plate Margin
- Primary Impacts
- 230,000 people killed
- Electricity, water, sanitation and communications disrupted
- 180,000 homes destroyed
- Bridges/roads collapsed
- Train lines damaged
- Produced 19 million cubic metres of rubble
- 1 million people instantly homeless
- 5000 schools damaged or destroyed
- 230,000 people killed
- Secondary Impacts
- Total cost of repairs = US$11.5bn
- Hard to get aid to area due to no port
- 1mil displaced people one year on
- Cholera killed several hundred people
- Short Term Responses
- Search and rescue for casualties
- Food, water, medical supplies and shelter
- Fair distribution of aid by UN and USA
- £100m raised for sanitation, medicals, clean water and shelter
- Long Term Responses
- 3/4 damaged buildings inspected & repaired
- 200,000 people received cash for completing public work
- Several thousand people moved away from the area
- The World Bank pledged £100m to support Haiti
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