RECENT SEISMIC EVENT IN AN LIC

Question 1

What is it and when was it

Answer 1

Haiti Earthquake 2010

Question 2

Why is Haiti very vulnerable to natural disasters

Answer 2

One of the poorest countries in the world

Question 3

Where’s Haiti

Answer 3

On carribean plate

Shares island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic

Question 4

Where did the Haiti earthquake occur

Answer 4

On the Erinquillo fault (northern edge of carribean plate)

It slips east 8cm a year

Question 5

What did this earthquake release the locked up energy from

Answer 5

The last earthquake here in 1770, 2m Movement

Question 6

Where was all the movement

What reached the surface

Answer 6

Underground (2-8km deep)

Seismic waves reached surface

Question 7

Where was the epicentre

Answer 7

At Leogane , 15km SW of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince

Question 8

What’s the capital of Haiti

Answer 8

Port-au-Prince

Question 9

What occurred 3 times after

Answer 9

Aftershocks

5.5,5.9 +6.1 a week after

Question 10

What date and time was the earthquake

Answer 10

12th January 2010

16:53 local time

Question 11

What was the magnitude

Answer 11

7.0

Question 12

3 social impacts

Answer 12

• death toll: 222,500 + 1000s remained unaccounted for buried beneath collapsed structures
• 15% people in port-au-prince either died or were injured
• bodies piled in streets
• collapsed buildings main reason of death/injury
• people got hungry so looting + violence was common

Question 13

Where were 75000 buried

Answer 13

Mass graves

Question 14

3 economic impacts

Answer 14

• capitals main port was destroyed
• phone lines failed making communications impossible
• 4758 schools damaged/destroyed

Question 15

How many people were made homeless

Where did they have to live

Answer 15

1.5 million

800,000 living outdoors in 450 improvised camps in port-au-prince

Question 16

What was the total value of damages and losses

Answer 16

$7.8billion

Question 17

How many buildings were either totally destroyed or damaged

Answer 17

10,000

Question 18

2 political impacts

Answer 18

• UN lost its headquarters and 80-100 staff

- many civic offices destroyed in port-au-prince e.g schools, tax offices, hospitals + parliament itself

Question 19

4 immediate responses (0-2 weeks)

Answer 19

• initial searching by manually lifting rubble - 120 people rescued once search teams brought equipment
• survivors went to hospitals in Dominican Republic but overwhelmed it
• Obama + US army sent 5,500 troops + 6US military ships
• celebrities raised £35 million in a 2 hour telethon

Question 20

What did the world food programme appeal for

Answer 20

Donors for 14 million ration packs - enough to feed 2 million for a month

Question 21

4 responses 2 weeks later

Answer 21

• UN sent extra 3500 troops + police to maintain law and order
• world bank suspended all payments on Haiti’s debt for next 5 years at least
• rapid response scheme funded by world bank using GIS and Google Earth
• 18 hospitals and emergency clinics began working in Port-au-Prince
• 4 airports and damaged dock partially reopened

Question 22

6 months later, what was organised involving 54 countries + 35 international organisations
How much money was given to reconstruction projects

Answer 22

A world summit for the future of Haiti : Solidarity Beyond the Crisis

$11 billion

Question 23

2 responses a year later

Answer 23

• schools and random commercial activity re-established
• only about 5% rubble cleared
• camps appeared permanent giving 800,00 shelter