LEDC earthquake case study >>> Haiti

Haiti Earthquake

Date: 12th January 2010

Location: Haiti, Caribbean

Magnitude: 7.0

Cause: A release of built up pressure from the North American Plate moving past the Caribbean Plate in a conservative plate boundary

Primary Impacts:

• Around 200,000-300,000 deaths
• Buildings and roads were destroyed

Secondary Impacts:

• Temporary 'tent' houses meant diseases spread easily
• Mud slides caused many deaths
• Aftershocks went on for about a month
  

• Money donated from many different countries

• Charities, eg. Action against Huger, sent volunteers and supplies to help

• Temporary 'tent' houses set up until people's homes rebuilt