Haiti Case Study
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- LEDC Earthquake Case Study-Haiti
- Effects
- Primary Effects
- Transport and communication links badly damaged
- 250,000 homes and 30,000 other buildings inc. President's Palace+60% of government buildings destroyed or badly damaged
- Hospitals (50+) and schools (1,300+) were badly damaged along with airport control tower
- Main prison destroyed-4,000 inmates escaped
- Secondary Effects
- Bodies piled up in the street decayed, causing diseases like cholera
- 1 in 5 lost their jobs because of destroyed buildings-clothing, Haiti's largest industry was one of the worst affected
- 316,000 people killed and 1 million made homeless-3 million affected overall
- People squashed into shanty towns or onto streets-health, sanitation and looting became problems
- Primary Effects
- Responses
- Immediate Responses
- $100 million in aid given by USA and $330 million by the EU
- 810,000 placed in aid camps, 115,000 tents and 1 million plus tarpaulin shelters provided
- Lack of emergency response due to poor planning and access-people had to rescue others by digging through rubble
- Long-Term Responses
- Support still needed for those without jobs-70% of population-through cash or food-for-work schemes
- 4.3 million provided with food rations in the weeks following the earthquake
- Temporary schools created and new teachers trained
- 1 million still without homes after 1 year
- Immediate Responses
- Causes
- Conservative margin-friction between plates
- Convection currents push the plates forwards
- Facts
- Poorest country in Western world
- Biggest earthquake in 200 years
- 2010
- Development Indidcators
- 2.8 years of education on anverage
- 12 vehicles per 1000 people
- GDP per capita=$1,300
- Effects
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