Haiti - Earthquake Case study
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- Created on: 28-10-19 14:55
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- Haiti 2010 (seismic hazard in a LIC)
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- Shallow focus - 12.87 km deep.
- Epicentre - 25.87 km from capital city.
- 52 aftershocks - measuring 4.5 or greater.
- LIC - on average people earn around < $1-2 a day in Haiti.
- 25 doctors and 11 nurses per 100,000 people.
- Less than 20% of 15+ people are literate.
- Not a full recovery from hurricanesand storms in 2008.
- Poor Building Construction
- Small runway could only fit one cargo plane at a time - longer process to assess aid.
- Responses
- Long-Term
- Haiti was dependent on overseas aid, including from China.
- New homes were built to a higher standard although the response was slo.
- One year on over one million were still living in temporary shelters.
- The port needed rebuilding which required a large amount of investment. It is year behind schedule
- Many residents remain dependent on aid agencies and donations from relatives abroad
- Haiti's economic and social recovery is patchy. The airport is new but few traffic lights work on its roads.
- Short-Term
- Crucial Aid was slow to arrive due to damaged ports.
- USA sent rescue teams and 100,000 troops
- Bottled water and purification tablets were distributed.
- 235,000 people were moved to less damaged cities away from Port-Au-Prince.
- The UK government donated £23 million.
- DominicanRepublic helped and flew in aid.
- Plane loads of water, food,tents,medicine and rescue equipment arrived.
- Long-Term
- Impacts
- Primary
- Ground Shaking
- Destruction of roads, bridges, fishing ports and irrigation
- 230,000 killed, 30,000 injured, 1.3 million homeless,
- Negative impact on economy, workers dead or injured
- Hospitals collapsed
- Unable to care for people
- Ground Shaking
- Secondary
- 100,000 houses destroyed,200,000 damaged.
- Airport and port destroyed.
- No access for help from over sea aid.
- Government building and Port-Au-Prince cathedral (landmark) destroyed in quakes.
- Manufacturing facilities damaged.
- Big knock on effect for the economy.
- Water pipes broken lead to water born disease such as cholera.
- Electrical wires broken meaning Haiti lost all contact.
- Primary
- Location
- 7.0 on the Richter scale.
- Lies on a conservaivve plate boundary.
- The depth of the focus was 8km.
- Located in the continent of North America.
- Lies on the CaribbeanTectonic Plate.
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