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Mind Map by Andrew_Ellinas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrew_Ellinas
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LEDC Earthquake Case Study:
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Causes
- 12th January 2010
- 16:53 local time
- 16:53 local time
- Conservative Plate Margin
- North American and Caribbean plate
slid past each other
- North American and Caribbean plate
slid past each other
- Magnitude: 7
- Epicentre was 15 miles away from
- Shallow focus earthquake
- 13km deep
- 13km deep
- Epicentre was 15 miles away from
- 12th January 2010
- Effects
- Social
- 200,000 deaths
- Pancaking of buildings
- Buildings weren't designed well-no
cross bracing or steel struts installed
into concrete walls
- Responsible for deaths and
people becoming trapped
- Buildings weren't designed well-no
cross bracing or steel struts installed
into concrete walls
- Pancaking of buildings
- 1.5 million left homeless
- 300,000 injured
- Outbreak of cholera claimed hundreds of lives
- Prison destroyed releasing
over 4,000 inmates
- 200,000 deaths
- Environmental
- Ground type was not
suitable to build on
- Loose sediments
such as soil and
sand-amplification
occured
- Loose sediments
such as soil and
sand-amplification
occured
- Took only 60 seconds to level city
- Buildings built on land susceptible to
earthquakes
- Land movement generated
localised tsunamis-killed a
total of 7 people
- Ground type was not
suitable to build on
- Social
- Responses
- Short Term
- 800,000 moved to aid
camps
- 120,000 tens and over a million tarpaulin shelters
provided
- Lack of immediate aid, people
relied on themselves
- 800,000 moved to aid
camps
- Long Term
- Support for 70% Haitians through
cash/food-for-work projects
- Temporary schools created
- Water and sanitation eventually supplied
- Support for 70% Haitians through
cash/food-for-work projects
- Short Term
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