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Case study tectonic = Haiti Jan 10th 2010 - Coggle Diagram
Case study tectonic = Haiti Jan 10th 2010
Place specific causes
Pressure was released at the conservative PB between the Caribbean and North American Plate
A shallow magnitude 7EQ occurred 12 miles from the capital Port au Prince
Consequences/impacts
Economic
£30bn cost, 32% economy
Port in Port au Prince closed for 2 years !
20,000 factories destroyed disrupting trade(rice sugar textiles)
Social
25,000 died - mostly in port au prince
Port damages ,city cathedral and UN HQ destroyed
1.5m homeless- 85000 still live in tents
Cholera broke out in la-piste camp in port au prince
Responses - generally slow and disorganised
Rescue effort
generally uncoordinated and slow :red_cross:
took 4 days before foreign rescue teams could arrive :red_cross:
UN &USA sent 16000 troops :check:
Relief
Generally chaotic :red_cross:
Took a week before food and water started to arrive :red_cross: - one they arrived , 400,000 people were moved into refugee camps operated by aid agencies such as Oxfam e.g
la piste camp
(place specific) :check:
Rebuilding
Very slow due to low economy :red_cross:
85,000 still live in the streets today :red_cross:
Support given through cash/food for work projects funded by the world food programme. This includes clearing rubble and use this to build roads :check:
only 20% of rubble has been cleared - took two years for the port to be repaired :red_cross: