Haiti earthquake 2010
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- Haiti earthquake 2010
- Facts
- Population 2 million
- 52 aftershocks
- poorest country western hemisphere
- 86% living in slums
- Physical causes
- conservative plate boundary
- North American and Caribbean plate
- 7 magnitude
- 13km focus
- rated X on Mercalli scale
- Secondary effects
- Strong afterschocks
- Haiti government crippled
- food too expensive
- police force crippled
- Short term responses
- Search teams struggled
- us military took control of aiport
- 1600 UN troops restore law
- emergency surgeries established
- water distributed
- Long Term responses
- $11.5 bin reconstruction package
- farming sector reformed
- hospitals, schools and homes built to 'life safe' standard
- built away from high risk areas
- economic activities moved away
- Prediction
- Paul Mann warned of earthquake in 2008
- predicted from earthquake 200 years earlier
- stress travelling in pattern
- earthquake in 19 years
- Emergency planning
- Police station collapsed
- Hospital collpased
- No emergency planning
- large scale devastation
- primary effects
- 25 000 dead
- 50% buildings collapsed
- liquefaction caused subsidence of foundations
- port unusable
- 1.5 million homeless
- small tsunami killed 7
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