haiti multihazard essay question
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- Created on: 04-12-16 15:30
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- The impacts to humans in multi hazardous environments are a result of the physical causes to these hazards
- Intro
- Haiti
- Population: 9.9 million
- 10% in Port au Prince
- Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Tropical storms, Landslides
- Population: 9.9 million
- Haiti
- Fatalism
- Lack of mitigation
- Refer to Kobe, Japan 1995
- Successful mitigation
- Money not put towards improved infrastructure
- Refer to Kobe, Japan 1995
- Literacy rate 51.2%
- 'Lost generation'
- Hazards destroyed/closed schools
- Poorest country outside of Africa
- Lack of mitigation
- Location
- N. American/Caribbean plate boundary
- Conservative
- More prone to hazards
- Gulf of Mexico
- Sea temp above 27 degrees
- Tropical storms more likely
- Sea temp above 27 degrees
- N. American/Caribbean plate boundary
- Global Warming
- Tropical storms more likely
- Seismic Waves
- 20,000 homes destroyed
- Lack of mitigation
- Refer to Kobe, Japan 1995
- Successful mitigation
- Money not put towards improved infrastructure
- Refer to Kobe, Japan 1995
- Lack of mitigation
- 6.9 magnitude 2010
- Shallow focus
- Waves travel less distance, more energy, worse damage
- Shallow focus
- 20,000 homes destroyed
- Deforestation
- 1.4% of trees left in 2004
- Landslides more likely
- Agricultural land/crops destroyed
- Intro
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