Hati earthquake 2010 (ledc) mag 7

primary impacts
1. more than 300,000 people died
2. 70% of buildings were destroyed due to poor infrastructures and lack of steel in the concreat
3. pankaking of buildings
4. 230,000 were injured
5. 5,000 criminals escaped during the earthquake
secondary impacts
1. 1 million were homeless
2. remaining hospitals were overcrowded
3. Crime in IDP camps
4. cholera outbreak in IDP camps
short term
1. international rescue teams searched for survivors
2. 1 billion was promised
3. dead bodies removed to stop disease
long term
1. IDP camps
2. US engineers restored crones, piers, buildings at the ports
3. free fresh water supplied months after
4. only 2% of the debri was moved months after
facts
1. constructive plate boundaries
2. 13 km down was very shallow so was extreme

Resource summary

	Created by rhys evans about 8 years ago