Haiti Earthquake
- Created by: Latisha.S
- Created on: 19-04-19 20:58
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- Haiti Earthquake LIC (2010)
- Causes
- located on a conservative plate boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates
- Prepared
- no previous earthquakes
- no money and weak government
- no earthquake proof buildings
- Primary Effects
- 230,000 dead and 300,000 injured
- main port and airport damaged
- 8 hospitals and government buildings in Port au Prince collapsed
- 1 million homeless
- Secondary Effects
- 2 million without food
- looting
- water contaminated (due to dead bodies)
- outbreaks of cholera
- businesses destroyed
- large scale unemployment (1/5 people lost their job)
- 2 million without food
- Short Term Responses
- Effective
- mass graves
- reduces cholera outbreaks
- American engineers helped rescue people
- saved lives
- mass graves
- Not Effective
- aid couldn't be delivered as ports and airports were damaged
- looting
- American engineers were too late
- many already dead
- aid couldn't be delivered as ports and airports were damaged
- Effective
- Long Term Responses
- Effective
- aid helped rebuild port and airport
- could export and build economy
- aid helped rebuild port and airport
- Not Effective
- homes not rebuilt
- people still living in tents and squatter settlements
- homes not rebuilt
- Effective
- Causes
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