Haiti Earthquake
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- Haiti Earthquake
- Causes
- The focus was 13km below surface
- The earthquake was at a conservative plate margin between the Caribbean and north american(atlantic)
- There were a lot of large aftershocks after the main earthquake (7.0)
- Effects
- About 1.5m people left homeless
- About 220,000 people were killed
- Over 1/3 buildings were destroyed in Port au Prince
- About 300,000 people were injured
- The aid struggled to get there because the port and roads were badly damaged.
- gov buildings and cathedral destroyed
- People in Port-au-Prince struggled to return to homes and ended up living in camps on outskirts of city
- Responses
- $100 bn of aid was donated
- large scale investment was needed to bring Haiti's infrastructure up to standard
- Micro-loans were given out by NGOs to help people 'build resilience' and start again
- UN sent troops to help distribute the food and water aid
- Reports were instant and the news travelled around the world but international help was slow to arrive.
- 12th January 2010
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