Haiti Earthquake Case Study January 12th 2010
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- LDC Earthquake Case Study: Haiti January 12th 2010
- Background and Location
- Date of earthquake: January 12th 2010
- Plate Boundary: conservative fault at a destructive plate boundary between the Caribbean and N. America plates. same direction, different speeds
- Epicentre: 25km from capital city- Port au Prince
- severe aftershocks
- 7.0 on the Richter Scale
- Focus: shallow- 13km underground
- total cost: $4billion
- Primary Effects
- approx 220,000 killed
- 300,000 injured
- 100,000 houses destroyed & 200,000 damaged
- 1.3 million Haitians left homeless
- 25% civil servants died
- infrastructure crippled- 60% destroyed
- Secondary Effects
- >2 million Haitians left without food and water
- 1/5 people lost their jobs
- looting became a serious problem
- police force collapsed
- damage to port and main roads meant that critical aid supplies were prevented from arriving
- dead bodies in streets and buried under rubble- health hazard in heat- mass graves
- immediate responses
- port and roads were damaged- crucial aid slow to arrive-the airport was unable to handle the no. of flight aids
- american engineers & diving teams used to clear debris
- USA sent ships, helicopters, 10,000 troops, search & rescue teams & $1 million- EU sent $330m
- UN sent troops & police & set up "food aid cluster" to feed 2m people
- bottled water and purification tablets supplied (and health supplies to prevent disease and treat injured
- field hospitals set up & injured airlifted to nearby countries- 115,000 tents &1m tarpaulin shelters
- govt moved 235,000 from Port-au-Prince to less damaged cities
- Long Term Responses
- $1bln in aid from foreign countries by Jan 2011- 72% of what was required
- support for unemployed (nearly 70% of popn) through cash/food for work projects
- temporary schools and new teachers trained (95% children in quake zone back in school by Jan 2011)
- by Jan 11- 98% of rubble on roads had not been removed due to lack of heavy lifting equipment because Haiti is so poor
- investment required to bring infrastructure up to quake standard. new buildings must be made more earthquake proof to prevent future problems
- Background and Location
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