Haiti Earthquake
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- Created on: 26-04-15 18:36
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- Haiti Earthquake
- Effects
- Buildings fell into roads
- 230,000 killed
- 300,000 injured
- People moved to 1,000 camps
- Roads shut for 10 days
- 8 hospitals collapses
- 1.5 million homeless
- 180,000 homes destroyed
- 4000 prisoners escaped
- 19 million cubic metres of rubble
- cholera killed children
- Repair cost: $11.5 billion
- Responses
- Global Rescue Operations
- Trained medics and equipment flown over
- USA brought food, water, medicine and shelters
- UN and USA provided security to maintain law and order
- 3/4 of buildings repaired
- UK's Disaster Emergency Committee raised £100 million
- 200,000 received cash or food for helping out
- Thousands migrated to other countries
- World Bank sent $100 million to support reconstruction
- Basic Info
- 12th January 2010
- North American and Caribbean Plate
- 7.0 magnitude
- 80% of 9.7 people live in poverty
- Poorest country in Western Hemisphere
- Effects
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