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Haiti Earthquake (Causes / Background Information (Conservative plate…
Haiti
Earthquake
Impacts
Primary
Damaged / destroyed
60% of government buildings
Presidential Palace
Police HQ
1,300+ schools
50+ hospitals
250,000 homes
30,000 other buildings
316,000 killed
4,000 inmates escaped
$11.5 billion total damages
1.5 million rendered homeless
Secondary
1 in 5 people lost their jobs
Clothing industry, largest in country, worst affected
Looting
Hospitals and morgues became full
Bodies pilled up in streets
Cholera spread
$11.5 billion total damages
1.5 million rendered homeless
Location
East of Mexico
South-east of America
Island of Hispaniola
Greater Antilles
Caribbean Sea
Dominican Republic
Causes / Background Information
Epicentre 24 km from Port-au-Prince
Shallow focus of 17 km
Poorest country in western hemisphere
Magnitude 7 (Richter scale)
Conservative plate boundary
North American Plate
Caribbean Plate
Happened
12th of January, 2010
16:55
Worsened by
Shoddy construction
Dense population
Responses
Short-Term
Shelter
115,000 tents provided
1,000,000+ tarpaulin shelters provided
810,000 people in aid camps
Financial Aid
$100 million from USA
$330 million from EU
£100+ million raised by the UK's Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC)
Food Aid
4.3 million provided with food rations
Long-Term
Water & Sanitation
1.7 million supplied with water and sanitation
Failures - Rubble & Houses
98% of rubble on roads uncleared after 6 months
1 million without houses 1 year later
Unemployment (70% of population unemployed)
Food-for-work projects
Financial aid