CASE STUDY- Haitain earthquake 2010
- Created by: 8cburton
- Created on: 21-05-15 22:34
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Nature of event
- enriqullio fault
- Last earthquake long ago so lots of built up energy causing 2 metre movement
- No surface rupture
- rayeigh and love waves travelled across soft sedimentay coastal plains creating massive destruction
- Epicentre at Leogane, 15 km southwest of the capital Port-Au-Prince
- 3 strong 5-6 aftershocks
Impact of event
- Death toll 222,500
- 1000 unaccounted for
- 1.5 million homeless
- 7500 in mass graves, many bodies piles up in the streets
- 800,000 in improvised camps
- Only 3 out of 450 camps had potable water
- Capitals main port destroyed
- Leogane had 80-90% of its buildings detroyed
- 2X worse than any other 7.0 agnitude earthquake due to the socio-economic conditions
- Contructors used brittle steel and weak cement mixed with dirty/salty sand + steel reinforcement rodes which terminated at the joints where earthquake stress is highest
Immediate response
- rescue phase
- Manually lifting rubble as their was no heavy lifting gear available
- Aid agency staff looked for their own families
- International search teams brought their equipment and expertise
- 120 people rescued
- Hospitals overwhelmed
- Doctors performing amputations with basic equipment
2 weeks later
- Tents only for 25% of homeless
- US coast guard partially re-opened the damaged dock and 4 aiports to being in supplies
- Refief was unable to…
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