Tectonics - Haiti Earthquake

Question 1

date

Answer 1

January 2010

Question 2

richter scale

Answer 2

7.0

Question 3

plate margin

Answer 3

conservative
Caribbean and N American

Question 4

waves

Answer 4

L + R across sedimentary coastal plains
created mass damage

Question 5

epicentre

Answer 5

15km SW of capital Port- Au- Prince

Question 6

death toll

Answer 6

222,500

Question 7

mass graves

Answer 7

75,000 buried to prevent mass infection
bodies still piled up on streets and left for days

Question 8

improvised camps

Answer 8

800,000 forced to live outside in camps
only 40% of shelters had material
3 had portable water

Question 9

displaced/ homeless

Answer 9

1.5 million

Question 10

7 years later

Answer 10

55,000 people still lived in the camps

Question 11

damage costs

Answer 11

$8.5 million

Question 12

aftershocks

Answer 12

8 aftershocks in 2 hours up to 5.9 magnitude

Question 13

last earthquake

Answer 13

1770
large amount of locked up energy, indicating major slip of extreme energy released

Question 14

governance

Answer 14

corruption so limited disaster plans, no measuring equiptment

Question 15

aid workers

Answer 15

had to remain in UN compound from shooting and looting in capital

Question 16

building structures

Answer 16

brittle steal, weak cement, badly placed joints meant crumbling of 90% of buildings

Question 17

level of wealth

Answer 17

poorest nation in Western Hemisphere