earthquake case study
- Created by: Sharon
- Created on: 30-12-15 10:51
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- Haiti (Jan 12th 2010)
- HDI: 0.47 :UK:0.89 :Japan: 0.89
- Tectonic Setting
- Strike slip fault running off destructive plate margin.
- Magnitude
- 7.0.
- 1 minute long
- epicentre 15 miles from nation's capital. only 13km deep.
- Frequency
- 200 years since last earthquake.
- activity after 1755 and 1770 showed worry energy moving along fault line.
- Vulnerability
- largely vulnerable due to areas built on unstable soil. = shaking and liquefaction & land into sea.
- poorest country in western hemisphere.
- 38% uner 14, LE 60, GDP $1300, 80% below poverty line, 53% illiterate.
- poorest country in western hemisphere.
- Capacity to cope
- does not have resources e.g. warnings
- building quality was poor = most loss because building collapses. "pancaked"
- few reserves e.g. money, food. already reliant for over 30% national GDP
- Immediate response
- Own belongings, scientists for data. no actual aid. (transport issue, lack resources)
- Satellite imagery from London guided efforts
- confusion who in charge, priority of flights
- mass graves delays aid distribution created violence
- Impact
- 316,000 dead, million homeless. 3m total effected no earthquakes in mind.
- 250,000 residents & 30,000 commercial had collapsed.
- clothing -2/3 exports damaged at factory. 1/5 jobs lost.
- port destroyed communication cut beyond repair, sea level rose
- 2011 still in make shift homes. roads cracked from fault line
- Long term response
- EU $330 million. World bank waved debt for 5 yrs
- Senegalese offered land to any haitians
- 6 months after, 98% rubble remained
- 1.6 million in camps no electricity,running water,sewage
- 23 charities $1.1 billion, only 2% released
- one year after 1 million srillldispplaced
- USA charge of coordinate aid distribtuion
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