Haiti

Question 1

What were the primary impacts of the haiti earthquake?

Answer 1

220,000 deaths and 300,000 injured
The main port au prince was damaged
Buildings collapsed
Eight hospitals were destroyed

Question 2

What were the secondary impacts of the earthquake?

Answer 2

Governments buildings collapsed and because of this they weren’t able to control the police force.
. 1.3 million were made homeless after their homes destroyed
. The level of crime increased with many shops looted
. 80 percent of schools destroyed
. The main port au prince destroyed making it longer for medical supplies to get to Haiti
. People were put in tents and shelter and rapidly cholera spread because of dust and disease in water.

Question 3

What were the responses to the haiti earthquake?

Answer 3

. Residents of port au prince dug with bare hands to try and rescue people stuck under rubble
. 250, 000 people were moved to less damaged cities.
. Uk govermnent donated 20 million
. America gave water and purification tablets.

Question 4

Why were the impacts of haiti so bad?

Answer 4

They were so bad because…
. The magnitude of the earthquake on a seismometer was 7.0 which is the tremor of the earthquake.
. On a mercalli scale it was a 10 based on the great destruction of the cities.
. The epicentre was close to the capital which made the tremor and destruction greater as it was closer to the crust.
. The buildings weren’t correctly designed , the goverment used cheap materials like concrete to build them. This made the buildings fall easier which means more destruction and made them not able to withstand the earthquake.
. The population of people was great in one area , which meant more deaths.
. They weren’t prepared for an earthquake, which might of caused people to panic causing destruption and more people not knowing about the earthquake.
. The Haiti government have a low GDP of 650 which meant that the infastructure of buildings were likely to be destroyed.
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