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Description
Mind Map by Lauren Bradford, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lauren Bradford
over 7 years ago
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Haiti Earthquake, 2010
- Nature of event
- GNI of $660 pp p.a
- poorest country in northern hemisphere
- poorest country in northern hemisphere
- 12th Jan 2010
- 7 Richter Scale
- Marcalli Scale level 9 - 'ruinous'
- Marcalli Scale level 9 - 'ruinous'
- Epicentre 15 miles from Port au Prince
- Shallow focus - 13km deep
- 52 aftershocks of Richter 4.5 or more
- GNI of $660 pp p.a
- Cause
- Movement in conservative strike - slip fault line
- between Caribbean and North American plate
- between Caribbean and North American plate
- Movement also in Enriquillo - Plantain Garden fault system
- Land movement 1.8 metres
- Land movement 1.8 metres
- Movement in conservative strike - slip fault line
- 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
- 70% live on less than $2 a day
- Impacts
- Social
- Primary
- Killed over 200,000
- 25% of Haiti's civil servants
- 100 UN personnel
- 25% of Haiti's civil servants
- 4000 escaped Prison Civile
- 70% buildings collapsed
- 8 hospitals
- 8 hospitals
- 1.5 million homeless
- Killed over 200,000
- 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
- 6,900, as of Nov 2011, died from cholera
- Primary
- Environmenal
- Primary
- Destroyed 60% of Port au Prince
- Farmland submerged
- North uplifted, South subsided
- Destroyed 60% of Port au Prince
- Secondary
- Untreated contaminated water = cholera endemic. First case in Oct 2010
- More than 500,000 cases
- More than 500,000 cases
- Untreated contaminated water = cholera endemic. First case in Oct 2010
- Primary
- Social
- 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
- world bank funded supplementary food for 200,000 children aged 6 - 23 months
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