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Haiti Earthquake - January 2010Why did so many people die?
http://www.dec.org.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=412
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TASK 1. Shade in and name Haiti & The Dominican Republic 2. Highlight the conservative plate boundary 3. Add a title
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Haiti Earthquake January 2010 Haiti – background
• Haiti is in the Caribbean and is the western third of the island of Hispaniola – joined by the Dominican Republic
• Has a population of 9 million people• Port-au-Prince is the capital with a
population of 3.5 million • It is the poorest country in the western world
– more than half the population live on less than $1 a day
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Why did it happen?Causes:
• Haiti is situated along the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates
• These two plates move at about 20 mm a year, with the Caribbean plate moving eastward while the North American plate moving west.
• It is a conservative plate boundary. • This movement is not smooth and there is friction between the
North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. • Pressure builds between the two plates until it is released as an
earthquake.
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What happened – the facts
• On Tuesday, Jan 12th 2010 at 4:53 p.m local time a magnitude 7 earthquake hit Haiti.
• The epicentre was 25km SW of Port au Prince, Haiti’s capital.
• The focus was very shallow only 13 km deep.• By 24 January there had been at least 52 aftershocks
measuring 4.5 or greater on the Richter scale
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220,000 people died500 schools destroyed
300,000 had been injured
1.5 million made homeless
200,000 homes destroyed
THE FACTS
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Important buildings were damaged or destroyed including the :-
• National Assembly building• Port au Prince cathedral • Main jail.• The UN headquaters • President’s Palace
Important people also died :-
- Archbishop of Port au Prince
- Politicians - The chief commissioner of
the UN
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Situation made worse by the fact that :-
- Three million people live in slum conditions in Port au Prince - Haiti had a series of damaging storms the previous year- The unstable and corrupt government- Poor infra structure and urban planning non existent – hampering rescue attempts- Haiti airport only has one runway, the control tower was badly damaged- The port was also damaged so relief workers and supplies held up – took 48hrs initially- Main roads out of Port au Prince were still blocked 10 days after the earthquake - Public telephone, mobiles and internets down
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• Severe shortage of Drs many died of broken limbs
• Sewage released from 400 makeshift camps a major health hazard