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Haiti Earthquake, 2010
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AS level Geography Mind Map on Haiti Earthquake, 2010, created by Lauren Bradford on 10/03/2017.
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Haiti Earthquake, 2010
Nature of event
GNI of $660 pp p.a
poorest country in northern hemisphere
12th Jan 2010
7 Richter Scale
Marcalli Scale level 9 - 'ruinous'
Epicentre 15 miles from Port au Prince
Shallow focus - 13km deep
52 aftershocks of Richter 4.5 or more
Cause
Movement in conservative strike - slip fault line
between Caribbean and North American plate
Movement also in Enriquillo - Plantain Garden fault system
Land movement 1.8 metres
Vulnerability
70% live on less than $2 a day
Not recovered from 2008 hurricanes
Many public services run by UN and aid charities
86% in Port au Prince in slum conditions
Prof. Paul Mann, 2008 - wrote a report warning of an earthquake
Poor building codes and governance
Impacts
Social
Primary
Killed over 200,000
25% of Haiti's civil servants
100 UN personnel
4000 escaped Prison Civile
70% buildings collapsed
8 hospitals
1.5 million homeless
Secondary
6,900, as of Nov 2011, died from cholera
4,000 amputees unable to live normally
Sexual attacks within camps due to lack of security
1.6 million in camps in July, fell to 1 million in Sept
Environmenal
Primary
Destroyed 60% of Port au Prince
Farmland submerged
North uplifted, South subsided
Secondary
Untreated contaminated water = cholera endemic. First case in Oct 2010
More than 500,000 cases
Response
world bank funded supplementary food for 200,000 children aged 6 - 23 months
dr rossetto - monitired destruction, advised field members on where to go
aid only 72% of what is required
95% children in quake zone back in school jan 2011
Haiti's Plan of Action for Recovery and Development - remove cirrpuotion, become independent of aid
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