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Haiti - LIDC - 2010 Earthquake - Coggle Diagram
Haiti - LIDC - 2010 Earthquake
Background
Conservative boundary
Numerous devasting earthquakes over 300 years
Human factors
More than 50% of pop below poverty line
Poorly constructed buildings
Could not predict the earthquake
One of the worlds least developed countries
Physical factors
Sloping leads to landslides
Slippage along conservative plate boundary that runs through Haiti
Epicentre very close to capital city
Mw 7
Impacts
Social
over 220,000 deaths
1.3 million made homeless
issues with human trafficking
Water pipes burst = water contaminated
4000 schools damaged
Economic
Businesses destroyed
$8 billion worth of damage
Looting
increase in unemployment
Environmental
Fires destroyed woodlands and farmland
landslides
Build landscape destroyed
Political
Hatit is politically unstable
Modifying
The event
It was unpredictable
Vulnerability
There was no planning or preparation
Loss
Many people donated money from all over the world
Poor emergency service response
Countries such as the UK sent humanitarian aid
Medical professionals and reconstruction teams were deployed to help
A decade after the event UNICEF and partners are still helping Haiti