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2010 Haiti Earthquake - Coggle Diagram
2010 Haiti Earthquake
Impacts on Stakeholders
Normal residents/Tourists
316,000 killed, 300,000 injured, 1.3 million displaced, 97,294 houses destroyed and 188,383 damaged mostly in the Port-au-Prince area and in Southern Haiti.
Nearly 100,000 squared kilometers of land area was exposed to landslide hazards, and at least 20,000 residents live near areas where landslides could have been produced.
And, more than 100,000 residents lived in areas that have possible liquefaction. Liquefaction is the loss of strength of loose soils caused by earthquake shaking that results in soil that behaves more like a liquid. This can cause buildings to tilt and may even render the surface of the ground to be permanently deformed because of ejected sand and water.
about 100 squared kilometers of land with shaking that was measured to be of VII intensity, which meant very strong shaking, and moderate damage.
Haiti residents don't receive enough money, and therefore, even 5 years after the earthquake, 62% of the population is living in extreme poverty, and the country remains the poorest of the Western hemisphere.
Because of the sheer amount of people in poverty and homeless people, a cholera outbreak spread across the country not even a year after the earthquake, causing one of the biggest epidemics in the world. The cholera outbreak was caused by the major source of drinking water in Haiti contaminated with fecal matter.
The aftermath of the quake was horrible: loss of communication lines, failure of the electric power system and blocked roads. The one million people who were left homeless in the devastated urban areas were forced to stay in "ersatz cities" composed of donated tents and random materials. Looting and robbing became natural for the residents, especially as several thousand prisoners escaped from the prisons as a result of nobody caring.
The injured residents could not seek help immediately because many hospitals have been rendered unusable. Instead, survivors were forced to wait days for treatment, and with infections and blood loss, many died, letting corpses stack in the streets.
Haiti Government
The Haiti Government is faced with reconstructing and rehabilitating country infrastructures, rebuilding schools and hospitals with money generously donated to by the European Union. Additionally, the Haiti government has to provide public housing, strengthen the administration, and bring the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere to a good spot. But, it's still very far from satisfactory.
Political elections were delayed by nearly a year, and even then, voter turnout there were allegations of electoral fraud. Municipal and senatorial elections were delayed and re-scheduled as well, and Haiti's parliament was dissolved, having lost its mandate to govern.
The Haiti Government faced mass protests against them as they were accused of fraud and bad leadership, among many other things.
Organizations that brought aid
Humanitarian aid was promised and many countries around the world sent doctors, relief workers and supplies in the wake of the disaster.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/1/100113-haiti-earthquake-red-cross/
Biggest earthquake in Haiti in the last 200 years
Haiti, the western half of the island of Hispaniola January 12, 2010, a shallow "strike slip faulting" in the region separating the Caribbean and the North American plate
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000h60h/executive
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000h60h/ground-failure/summary
Really nice diagrams and stuff