Port-Au-Prince earthquake
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- Created on: 04-06-18 16:27
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- Port-au-Prince Earthquake
- When, where, why?
- 12th January 2010
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Conservative boundary- North American plate moving east and Caribbean plate moving east past each other.
- Stresses built up as the plates became jammed.
- When stresses released, 7.0 earthquake.
- Focus 13km beneath Earth's surface (shallow)
- When stresses released, 7.0 earthquake.
- Stresses built up as the plates became jammed.
- Impacts
- Over 230,000 killed
- 1,500 later died of cholera.
- 1.5 million homeless
- 54% of people live in abject poverty.
- 50% buildings destroyed.
- Government crippled
- Over 230,000 killed
- Responses
- 16,000 UN troops reinstated law and order.
- Haiti Relief Fund manages $11.5 billion reconstruction programme.
- Homeless accommodated in 1100 camps.
- Local people employed for reconstruction.
- US troops reopened one of the ports.
- When, where, why?
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