Haiti 2010 EQ

Question 1

How many people died in the Haiti EQ?

Answer 1

220,000-230,000

Question 2

How many people were injured in the Haiti EQ?

Answer 2

300,000+

Question 3

How many people died of cholera, following the EQ?

Answer 3

8000

Question 4

What attitude to people in Haiti have towards hazardous events

Answer 4

fatalism

Question 5

What percentage of Haiti’s GDP was made up by debt?

Answer 5

20%

Question 6

What % of Haitians were living in poverty PRIOR TO the 2010 EQ?

Answer 6

65%

Question 7

How many schools were damaged or destroyed in the Haiti 2010 EQ?

Answer 7

4000

Question 8

What percentage of civil servants in Port-au-Prince died?

Answer 8

25%

Question 9

How many people were supplied with water/sanitation following the 2010 EQ in Haiti?

Answer 9

1.7 million

Question 10

What percentage of buildings in Haiti were sub-standard?

Answer 10

60%

Question 11

What was a negative impact of international aid as a response to the 2010 EQ in Haiti?

Answer 11

aid worker brought over cholera, caused 8000+ deaths

Question 12

(opinion based) what is the most successful response to the EQ in Haiti (2010)?

Answer 12

4.3 mil supplied with food rations, provided food for population, who could not self-help, meant people didn’t die and were able to help with response efforts

Question 13

what is the most significant primary impact of the 2010 EQ in Haiti?

Answer 13

1.5M homeless, as left them vulnerable to other hazards and required significant amounts of money to rebuild and provide temporary housing

Question 14

How far was the epicentre from Port-au-Prince?

Answer 14

24km

Question 15

What was the focus of the EQ?

Answer 15

13km

Question 16

How were the UN involved with Haiti

Answer 16

• MINUSTAH from 2004 to 2017, efforts refocused as EQ hit
• 680 police officers deployed after EQ
• UN world food programme provided basic food aid

Question 17

What % of Port-au-Prince lived in slum conditions prior to the EQ?

Answer 17

86%

Question 18

How much of the population of Port-au-Prince had access to latrines before the EQ? Tap water?

Answer 18

latrines: 1/2
Tap water: 1/3

Question 19

After the EQ, how much debris was there in Port-au-Prince?

Answer 19

19 million cubic metres

Question 20

What % of schools in Port-au-Prince collapsed?

Answer 20

80%

Question 21

How much was donated by the UK public in response to the 2010 EQ? (through the DEC)

Answer 21

£107 million

Question 22

What Hurricane complicated the response to the 2010 EQ and when did it hit?

Answer 22

Hurricane Tomas, 5 November 2010

Question 23

How many people were supported by the initial aid response to the 2010 EQ in Haiti?

Answer 23

2 million over the first 90 days

Question 24

How many people were still in temporary shelters in 2011?

Answer 24

1 million

Question 25

How many people were provided with clean water by NGOs following the cholera outbreak in Port-au-Prince?

Answer 25

70,000+

Question 26

How much rubble remained 6 months after the EQ?

Answer 26

98%

Question 27

How much aid was collected?

Answer 27

$1.1 billion

Question 28

What is a long-term impact of the Haiti EQ?

Answer 28

long term political impacts
current violence and political instability stemmed from the 2010 EQ

Question 29

Why is the response to Haiti so complicated?

Answer 29

even with lots of funding, there is no management or governance. No single group or government has control over the reconstruction process

Question 30

How many UN peacekeepers were killed by the EQ?

Answer 30

96