Haiti + Northridge Comparison
- Created by: Brad_ers_B
- Created on: 11-06-15 15:03
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- Haiti + Northridge comparison
- Northridge, LA (17 Jan 1994)
- 6.7 magnitude Earthquake on Richter scale
- 600 Aftershocks
- 11,000 landslides triggered
- 57 Deaths, 10,000 injured, 1500 seriously injured
- Over 20,000 instantly homeless
- Result of the Conservative Pacific and North American Plate (San Andreas fault)
- 12,500 buildings suffered moderate to serious damage
- Several days after, 9,000 places without electric, 20,000 without gas and 48,500 without water
- 6.7 magnitude Earthquake on Richter scale
- Haiti (12 Jan 2010)
- 7.0 magnitude Earthquake on Richter scale
- 295,000 dead, 4000+ died from cholera
- Approx 1 million made homeless
- Result of conservative Caribbean Plate and North American Plate
- Over 180,000 homes damaged/ destroyed
- Aid piled up at first in airport due to lack of trucks to transport
- Northridge, LA (17 Jan 1994)
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