Haiti Earthquake
- Created by: Hayley Petts
- Created on: 21-01-14 19:19
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- Haiti Earthquake - 2010
- What happened?
- location
- magnitude = 7
- epicenter 16 miles West of Port-au-Prince
- shallow focus - 5 miles
- time/ speed of onset/ duration
- initial earthquake lasted 30-40 seconds
- 52 aftershocks measuring at least 4.5 on richter scale
- last earthquake - 1946 Dominican Republic
- tectonic situation
- transform plate margin
- Caribbean and North American plate
- was caused by a slip along an existing fault in this area
- Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault
- transform plate margin
- location
- impacts
- short term
- 316,000 dead
- 25% of civil servants in Port au Prince died
- 1 million made homeless
- 3 million affected
- main prison was destroyed
- 4,000 prisoners escaped
- airport was closed
- no mobile or internet signal due to damage
- 316,000 dead
- long term
- 1 in 5 lost their jobs due to building damage
- difficult for Haiti to receive aid due to airport and poor management
- clothing industry facilities damaged
- damaged the economy as 66% of Haiti's exports are clothes
- $10 billion worth of damage
- more than Haiti's annual GDP
- 6 months after - 98% of the rubble remained un-cleared
- blocking vital access to roads
- 2 million live on squatter land on which they do not own
- short term
- preparation/ warning
- Haitian officials ignored a local scientist who warned that a big earthquake was imminent a year before
- development
- HDI
- ranked 148th
- GDP
- $12.92 billion
- GDP per capita
- $1,300
- Population
- 9,801,664
- HDI
- What happened?
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