GEOGRAPHY- Haiti earthquake
- Created by: Rachieba01
- Created on: 01-05-17 16:42
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- Tectonic hazards: Haiti earthquake
- CAUSES
- Conservative plate margin- North American and Caribbean plates
- Very shallow focus - 8 miles underground
- 7.0 on Richter scale
- 32,000 small atomic bombs
- 12th Jan 2010
- EFFECTS
- Primary
- 230,000 died and 300,000 injured
- 8 hospitals badly damaged
- 250,000 homes destroyed- there were a lot as most of them situated on the soft rocks of the coastal plain
- Presidential palace and government buildings destroyed
- Secondary
- 1 in 5 jobs lost and businesses destroyed
- Government not able to run the country- US had to take over
- Strong aftershocks - went on for 6 days. One was 6.1
- homeless people moved into makeshift tents
- Damaged roads- aid supplies could not get to the most vounrable
- Primary
- RESPONSES
- short term
- food and water sent over urgently
- The US sent in 10,000 troops as Haiti was so chaotic
- 100 million dollars of short term aid
- Dominican republic offered their hospitals
- Long term
- many celebrities offered money
- 5 years later people are still living in tents and struggling to survive with little aid
- by 2012 only 5% of the rubble had been cleared and only 15% of homeless had been found new homes
- 80,000 people still living in temporary accommodation
- $4.5 billion promised to help rebuild Haiti
- not all money was given as Haiti government could not be trusted to not steal the money
- most money was wasted on less important matters than clean water and sanitation
- wide spread diseases e.g cholera throughout Haiti
- poorly built homes contributed to higher number of deaths
- short term
- CAUSES
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