Haiti Earthquake Flashcards
When was the Haiti earthquake?
January 12th 2010
What type of boundary is haiti on?
Conservative
What are the two plates haiti sits on?
North american and Caribbean
How long was the fault line locked for?
250 years
What was the measurement on the richter scale?
7.0
How shallow was the focus?
8 miles
What is the capital of Haiti?
Port-au-Prince
Where was the location of the epicentre?
10 miles from Port-au-Prince
How many after shocks were there and what did they measure of the richter scale?
2, (5.5 and 5.9)
What are some primary effects of the earthquake?
Infrastructure destroyed such as hospitals and schools and roads
90,000 homes destroyed
Death and injury
Prison destroyed
How many people died?
220,000
What happened as a result of the prison being destroyed?
The inmates broke free and began looting
What were secondary effects of the earthquake?
Bodies decayed quickly due to the rising temperatures
Local tsunami
Aid from MEDC’s distributed
Lack of water and food
Spread of disease
Homeless people migrated to the Dominican Republic
What were the short term responses?
Internation aid teams arrived with aid
23,000 tents distributed
People dig with their bare hands and basic tools to find survivors
What were the long term responses?
Vast areas being rebuilt from scratch
G7 countries wrote off Haiti’s debt
