Haiti earthquake

Question 1

What is the key information about this earthquake

Answer 1

12th January 2010
Magnitude 7
4:53pm
The epicentre was south west of the capital

Question 2

What was the location of the earthquake

Answer 2

The epicentre was 25km south west of the capital

Question 3

What was the cause of the earthquake

Answer 3

Movements of the destructive plate margins within the Caribbean, it is two conservative strike-slip faults on the island that cause the most impacts
Movements in the enriquillo-plantain fault system in the south of the country
Energy released along 65km of the fault

Question 4

What were the primary effects

Answer 4

killed over 230,000 people
705 of buildings in Port-au-Prince collapsed
killed over 100 UN personnel

Question 5

What were the secondary effects

Answer 5

Cholera spread–> 6,900 deaths and 500,000 cases
Overcrowded morgues–>most bodies were buried in mass graves
20% of all jobs had disappeared
Many serious problems such as assault and rape in the camps due to no policing

Question 6

What were the short term responses

Answer 6

Dominican republic was the first to send water, food and heavy lifting machinery to help rescue people
Iceland had an emergency responses team in the country within 24hrs
1500 camps were set up across the capital
one delivery of drinking water a week

Question 7

What were the long term responses

Answer 7

Homes had to comply with building codes and had to be constructed in a hazard resilient way
The world bank funded supplementary food for 200,000 children aged 6-23 months
The world bank funded schools for 140,000 children within camps
New water supply systems were set in 6 rural locations to encourage people to stay in the countryside
Began to draw up a disaster plan which includes food stockpiles and boiled water. There to be more coordination and working with the military in order to clear roads to access areas to receive aid