Haiti

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  • Created on: 25-05-13 21:34
what percentage of buildings were destroyed in Haiti?
80-90%
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In Leogane, how many people were killed on impact?
10,000-200,000
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How many buildings were destroyed?
80%
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What size was the earthquake?
7.0 on the richter scale
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what plate margin did it happen on?
conservative
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Why did people fear digging through the rubble?
fear of further collapse
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how many people were injured, hungry or homeless?
3 million
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Hospitals exhausted their...
stocks of critical medical supplies
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When did the earthquake happen?
late afternoon on the 12th of January 2010
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how far did it stretch from the epicentre?
20km
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What did voodoo priests disagree with?
mass burial of bodies
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what did this lead to?
rapid spread of disease
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where did people flee?
Dominican Republic, rural areas or local islands
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What happened to many refugees in the dominican Republic?
were forcibly repatriated
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Where is Leogane?
25km west of Port-au-Prince
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Why was there so much damage?
The housing in Haiti was weak
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