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Case Study: Haiti Earthquake (the earthquake (4:53 Tuesday 12th Jan 2010.,…
Case Study: Haiti Earthquake
Impacts
Primary
Liquification
70% of buildings in Port au Prince collapsed
Mass devastation - 300,000 injured
**final death toll of 250,000 people
4,000 prisons escapade from Prison Civile when it was destroyed.
1.5 million homeless out of 10 million
52 aftershocks of 4.5 of greater
Secondary
Police force collapsed and government buildings collapsed, prevented further planning.
NGO's brought cholera, by November 2010 there were outbreaks.
damage to the port and main road meant
critical aid supplied were prevented from arriving and being distributed effectively.
US authorities took control, landings from airports rose from 35 to 100 a day.
However some aircraft still had to be turned away.
Major confusion
, despite President Preval meeting with US planners every day.
Responses
Local
Small farmers supported so crops can be grown.
8000 Hatian police returned to the streets 2 weeks after the disaster.
Rape and other sexual attacks in camp Corail - OXFAM
National
President Prevail
and government ministers were extremely limited with resources
Now drawing up a
Distaster plan
including bottles of water and food supplies
Teachers being trained to deal with traumatised chidden and development in manufacturing industry with the help of the EU ad World Bank.
International
Neighbouring Dominican Republic
first to offer emergency supplies
American Rod Cross helped out but 3 days later they declared they had run out of money.
GIS mapping sites
provided earthquake mapping photography.
Social media -
$7 million donated through text messages in the US
EU contributed $1.7 out of $10 billion of aid that the international community gave.
World Bank provided large scale capital investment to rebuild infrastructure to a higher standard.
NGOs
Outbreak of cholera
, Camp Corail
due to poor sanitation and contaminated food and water
Lack of communication and coordination
Lots of money spent of buying transport vehicles and arranging accommodation, increasing costs.
the earthquake
4:53 Tuesday 12th Jan 2010.
Epicentre: 10 miles away from Port-au Prince, capital
Magnitude 7.0
Occurred at
Enriquillo fault.
Lies between Caribbean plate and Gonave microplate (south of North American plate)
Conservative boundary
80km of land of Gonave microplate moved 1.8m upward