Earthquake: Haiti (LEDC)

Question 1

Details

Answer 1

1) Date: 2010
2) Epicentre: 25 km west from Port au Prince (capital where most businesses, services are located)
3) Magnitude:7

Question 2

Primary Impacts

Answer 2

1) 220 000 deaths
2) 300 000 injured
3) Several hospitals collapsed
4) injuries
5) Business destroyed
6) airport and port damaged

Question 3

Secondary Impacts

Answer 3

1) 1.3 million made homeless
2) 3 million people affected
3) cholera outbreaks

Question 4

Why was it particularly bad?

Answer 4

1) few earthquake resistant buildings
2) Earthquake was 25 km west from epicentre
3) businesses and other structure were poorly built
4) few resources to rescue or treat injured people

Question 5

Primary Responses

Answer 5

1) Dominican Republic provided emergency water, heavy machinery and search rescue underneath the rubble
2) most people however had to dig rubble by hand
3) Medical teams treated the injured (temporary field hospitals were set by organisations such as Red Cross)
4) United Nations troops and police sent to distribute aid and keep order

Question 6

Secondary responses

Answer 6

1) Schools are being built
2) ‘Cash for work’ programs for Haitians to clear rubble
3) Smaller farms are being supported so crops can grow

Question 7

Magnitude

Answer 7

7