Haiti Case Study
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- Created on: 29-11-21 14:18
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- Haiti Earthquake
- Background
- 2010
- 7.0 magnitude
- shallow focus
- Caribbean Plate and North American Plate
- Primary Impacts
- 316,000 deaths and 300,000 injured
- 3 million people affected and 180,000 homes destroyed
- all 8 hospitals collapsed and 5,000 schools damaged or destroyed
- Secondary Impacts
- looting and crime increased as government and police force collapsed
- factories closed and tourism stopped
- cholera spread through the squatter camps
- Immediate Responses
- unprepared and could not respond adequately to the disaster
- aid workers reported no one seemed to be in charge
- USA supplies and temporary shelters
- UK's Disasters Emergency Committee £100 million
- international aid in the form of search and rescue teams were flown into the country to help rescue those trapped by the collapsed buildings
- Long-Term Responses
- government moved 235,000 people from Portau-Prince to less damaged cities; many chose to stay away or emigrated
- 3/4 of the damaged buildings were inspected and repaired; earthquake resistant techniques were used in some cases
- 200,000 people were paid or received food for public work, such as cleaning rubble
- money was pledged by individuals and governments around the world
- by 2015, Oxfam estimated there were still 500,000 homeless people
- debt repayments cancelled by World Bank for five years
- a cholera epidemic began 10 months after the earthquake killing over 8,000 people and infecting 6% of all Haitians by 2013
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