EARTHQUAKE : Haiti Flashcards
1
Q
Date?
A
2010
2
Q
Epicentre?
A
13 km deep
3
Q
Aftershocks?
A
50
4
Q
Magnitude?
MMS
A
7.0 MMS
5
Q
Intensity?
Mercalli scale
A
X (10) on the Mercalli scale
6
Q
Primary hazards?
A
ground shaking
7
Q
Secondary hazards?
A
- soil liquefaction
- building collapse
8
Q
Primary impacts?
A
- prison destroyed so 4000 inmates escaped
- water supplies collapsed
9
Q
Secondary impacts?
A
looting and violence
10
Q
Economic impacts?
A
$8 billion cost
11
Q
Social impacts?
dead (+ cause) and homeless
A
-
160,000 dead
– 8,000 from cholera - 2.3 million homeless
12
Q
Environmental impacts?
A
landslides
13
Q
Political impacts?
A
municipal and senatorial elections were postponed
14
Q
Risk?
A
Septentrional Zone and Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zones
15
Q
Vulnerability?
A
- poor housing with no codes
- fatalism hazard perception due to extreme poverty
16
Q
Short-term responses?
A
- there was little heavy lifting equipment so people remained trapped
- 1.5 million in displacement camps
17
Q
Long-term management?
by 2014?
A
- new building codes
- 2014:
– 170,000 still in displacement camps
– 70% lacked electricity
