Haiti

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What year did the earthquake in Haiti occur?
2010
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What plate boundary did it occur at?
At a conservative plate boundary where the Caribbean plate and the North American Plate aside past each other.
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What was the magnitude?
7.0 on the Richter Scale
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What were the hazards caused by the earthquake?
- Flooding
- Landslides
- Contaminated water
- Fires
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What were the social impacts?
- 316,000 people died
- More than a million people were made homeless, in 2011 people remained in make-shift homes.
- 3 million people in total were affected.
- It is estimated the 1 in 5 jobs were lost as a result of the quake.
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What were the economic impacts?
- Shanty towns and even the presidential palace crumbled to dust.
- Haiti also estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings collapsed/severely damaged.
-Rubble from collapsed buildings blocked roads and rail links.
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What were the environmental impacts?
- The roads were littered with cracks and fault lines
-Trash-filled beaches
-smelly waterways
- swarms of dead fish
- tons of floating debris
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What were the short term responses?
- Many countries responded to appeals for aid, pledging funds and dispatching rescue and medical teams
- Port-au-Prince's morgues were quickly overwhelmed
- supplies, medical care and sanitation became priorities.
- looting and sporadic violence were o
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What were the long term responses?
- The EU gave $330 million and the World Bank waived the countries debt repayments for 5 years.
- 6 months after the quake, 98% of the rubble remained
- Between 23 major charities, $1.1 billion had been collected for Haiti
- One year after the earthquak
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How effective were the responses?
- 100,000 to 316,000 deaths – weren't as effective as people died from the issues after like untreated injuries and disease.
- The aid received minimised the damage, but the responses weren't quick enough to prevent thousands of deaths.
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Did they prepare?
Haiti had little preparation due to be an LIC and therefore devastation was massive.
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Did they Mitigate?
Through aid the devastation was mitigated, however, they weren't mitigated enough as devastation was major.
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How will they predict?
Through the use of aid and other countries they are beginning to start predicating natural disasters, but earthquakes are tricky to predict which makes this task very hard.
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How does PMAP (prepare, mitigate, adapt, predict) help reduce the impacts of earthquakes?
As they learn to adapt and prepare it will allow them to mitigate the other earthquakes better as they can protect their people. Also, people know what to expect and therefore have longer to prepare to increase their survival chances.
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