Haiti

Question 1

Location of Haiti

Answer 1

-Central America in the Carribean.
-On the same island as the Dominican Republic and next to Jamaica
-Sits on the Gonave microplate above the carribean plate.
-The Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone runs directly through capital Port-Au-Prince

Question 2

Why is Haiti vulnerable ?

Answer 2

-Majority of population can’t read (can’t educate themselves/read warnings)
-High % of pop live in slums (no stability in infrastructure)
-High pop density around fault line
-High % of pop are young (can’t fend for themselves)
-Frequently hit by tropical storms (no time to recover)
-High liquefaction potential

Question 3

Facts about vulnerability

Answer 3

-70.1% of pop living in slums in 2010
-36% of pop younger 14 in 2010
-80% of ppl living in poverty 2010
-63 yrs lift expectancy 2010
-Literacy rate for 2006 was 48.69%
-In 1980 had 25% of forests, by 2004 only 1.4% of forest remained

Question 4

Date of Haiti earthquake

Answer 4

January 12th, 2010

Question 5

Magnitude of Haiti earthquake

Answer 5

7.0 on moment magnitude scale

Question 6

Plates involved in Haiti

Answer 6

-Gonave microplate and Caribbean plate
-Conservative boundary
-Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone
-Parts of fault moved as much as 1m

Question 8

Primary impacts of Haiti earthquake

Answer 8

-3,500,000 affected in some way
-4,000 schools damaged/destroyed
-60% of gov buildings destroyed
-$10 billion total damage
-220,000 died
-Liquefaction around Port au Prince
-80% schools destroy in Port au Princ
-300,000 injured
-30,000 commercial buildings collapsed (loss of income/trade)
-Over 188,383 houses badly damaged 105,000 destroyed
-25% gov workers died

Question 9

Secondary impacts of Haiti earthquake

Answer 9

-1.5 million homeless
-2-3m tsunamis 70m inland
-1.5 million living in camps
-19 million cubic metres of rubble in port au prince
-30,828 landslides covering 15.7km2
-Poor sanitation in UN camp lead to cholera outbreak, 9,000 deaths

Question 10

Short term responses to Haiti

Answer 10

-US gov deployed 3,500 soldiers
-UK team with dogs to find survivors
-EU pledged €122 million in humanitarian assistance, €30 million for emergency aid relief
-Cuba sent 930 health professionals
-20 countries supplied man power, supplied or financial aid
-Most immediate aid from Dominican Republic

Question 11

Long term responses to Haiti

Answer 11

-World bank “Disaster Risk Management and Reconstruction project”
Worked with Haitian government to generate disaster risk management plans
Disaster risk training to 127 gov officials
7 emergency shelters rehabilitated
-UN contributed
Installed 6 seismic stations
Funding for 2 Haitian engineering students to complete seismology master degrees in America
-Engineers who work for Miyamoto trained 700 Haitian engineers on improving building techniques and proper concrete mixing ratios