Haiti Case Study

Hazard Nature

• Haiti is a multi-risk hazard enviroment: tropical storms, floods, earthquakes
• Has a complex slip fault, follows a conservative margin.
• Sits above the Caribbean and N American plates slide past one another in a E-W direction.
• plates got jammed building up pressure.
• 12 January 2010 released a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
• Shallow focus os 13 Km.
• Epicentre was located 24Km SW of Port-au Prince the capital.

Primary impacts

• Most of Port-au Prince was flattened in less than 60 seconds. This included key buildings such as the police station, national palace and parliament HQ. Demonstrates lack of infastructure.
• Infustucter damaged. Port subsided, roads uplifted and blocked by debris.
• Over 230,000 people died from quake, or diesaes or storm that followed.
• 50% of buildings collasped, were poorly built.
• Over 180,000homes got damaged.
• 1.5 million people made homeless, and schools were badly damaged.
• In total around 3,500 people got affected.
• Local sea level in some areas changed.

Secondary Impacts

• Strong after shocks recorded of a 6.1 magnitude on the 20th of January.
• Prison was destroyed and so…