HAITI EARTHQUAKE

Question 1

It is a large-scale earthquake that occurred January 12, 2010

Answer 1

HAITI EARTHQUAKE

Question 2

The Haitian government’s official count was more than

Answer 2

300,000

Question 3

The earthquake hit at 4:53 pm some 15 miles (25 km) southwest of the Haitian capital of

Answer 3

PORT-AU-PRINCE

Question 4

The initial shock registered a magnitude of

Answer 4

7.0

Question 5

It is a result from the ___________________________ sliding past each other in the east-west direction.

Answer 5

Caribbean tectonic plate and North American plate

Question 6

The epicentre was near Leogane, _________ of Haiti’s capital,Port-Au-Prince.

Answer 6

25 km West

Question 7

The ____________ is shifting by about 20 mm a year relative to the North American plate

Answer 7

Caribbean plate

Question 8

The focus of the Haiti’s earthquake was about 13 km below the Earth’s surface on the

Answer 8

Enriquillo - Plaintain Garden Fault.

Question 9

This fault has been locked for 250 years gathering stress, so that when this earthquake happened, the rupture in the fault was 65 km long, with a slippage of

Answer 9

1.8 m

Question 10

About ________ Haitians live as squatters on
land they do not own.

Answer 10

2 million

Question 11

economic impacts

Answer 11

1.INFRASTRACTURE
2.BUSINESSES
3.FOREIGN AID
4.DEBT
5.BUDGET