Haiti earthquake 2010

Question 1

Date

Answer 1

January 12th 2010

Question 2

Location

Answer 2

Haiti, caribbean

Question 3

Tectonic context

Answer 3

conservative plate boundary
NA plate and caribbean plate meets
Fault line runs straight through port au prince

Question 4

Magnitude on richter scale

Answer 4

7.00 MMS

Question 5

Epic centre stats

Answer 5

The exact epicenter of the earthquake was 18.457 N and 72.533 W closest to a town Léogâne.

Question 6

Focus stats

Answer 6

Focus was 13km
Shallow focus

Question 7

Factors contributing to vulnerability

Answer 7

• Poorest and least developed country in western hemisphere
• Communities and authorities cosistently unable to effectivley prepare and manage impacts of hazards
• Relies on billions of foreign aid in the events of hazards
• A multi hazard zone
• Largely informal economy with extreme disparities
• Fragile government and institutions

Question 8

Primary impacts

Answer 8

• 220,000 deaths
• 300,000 injured
• 1million homeless
• 250k residential and 30k commerical collapsed
• 3m affected
• 105k buildings destroyed,188k damaged
• Liquefaction led to building founation to subsise
• Over 600,000 left port au prince to host families
• Neatly 5000 schools damaged

Question 9

Secondary impacts

Answer 9

• 121k buildings collapsed
• 8.5bn in total damage - 90% of gdp
• 11.5bn in rebuilds
• Land subsised and high tides felt in chile
• Outbreak of cholorea (nov 2010 which un peacekeepers brought in)
• Slow aid arrival due to damage of the port
• Crippled haiti govt
• Crime rates increased sex and violence and looting
• 2m displaced to temporary accomodation
• Strong aftershocks

Question 10

Secondary impacts

Question 11

Short term responses

Answer 11

• Port damaged aid slow to arrive -UNWFP provided food
• Most watched telethon in history ‘Hope For Haiti’ raised 58m
• 4 million recieved food aid
• USA sent 10,000 troops
• 1.5M people recieved emergency shelter materials over 1100 camps
• 20m donated by UK govt
• UNDEC prtovided bottled water and purification tabelts for over 250k
• US military took care of rebuilding the airpot - sped up distribution
• 16,000 un troops restored law and order

Question 12

Long term responses

Answer 12

• Haiti releif fund managed 11.5bn reconstruction package
• Commercial residential buildings rebuilt to new life saving building codes - employed local people as construction workers
• Rebuilding prt
• Economic areas moved to non eq prone areas and provided new jobs
• Poor governance haiti not fully recovered

Question 13

Haiti today

Answer 13

Far from recovery
Political conflict
Temporary poor sanitation tent cities
Have become permanent for over 30k
Economic crisis
Poverty increasing
Presidents allowed corruption to occur
Worsening food nutrition and malnutrition
Lack of govt affected flow of aid
Mass living in poverty 2.4 dillars per day wb