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Haiti Earthquake 12/1/10
Aims:
To know about the causes, effects and management solutions to the Haiti Earthquake
To be able to classify information
Where is the Gulf of
Haiti?
Haiti is in the Caribbean
Where is Haiti?• Haiti is the western part of an island. The
Dominican Republic is the eastern part of
the island.
The Caribbean And Gonave Microplate became ______
along the Enriquillo Plantain Garden Fault Zone.
Gradually __________ built up for 250 years. Eventually the
pressure became so great that an ___________ occurred.
When the earthquake occurred on the 12/1/10 at 4:53pm,
the focus was quite __________, 13km below the earth’s
surface, resulting in a ___________ 7.1 earthquake.
Stuck pressure shallow earthquake
magnitude
Haiti 2010
Conservative plate margin
(strike slip)
Prisoners – 4,000 escaped Refugee camps – 900 died of
cholera, 15,000 ill. 1.5m
homeless
Farming – 70% of sugar cane
crops destroyed by flooding,
fields used to house survivors
– eaten by squatters
12/1/10 7.1 Richter Scale,
4:53pm, epicentre 15 miles
SW Port au Prince
shallow focus 13km deep
Haiti has no national building
codes, as a result there was
pancaking of the buildings.
Red Cross raised £70m by
11th February 2010, set up
200,000 toilets, website for
reuniting families
UN provided $10m to search
and rescue mission amongst
collapsed buildings and
provide 29,000 gallons water
To save lives and provide
basic sanitation to stop the
spread of disease.
American refugee committee
gave 2000 people $5 per day
to dig new latrines and
sewerage systems.
Dominican Republic sent 8
mobile medical units with 36
doctors.
Local residents – 19m
cubic metres rubble
produced by collapsed
buildings due to city being
built on loose sediment.
220,000 died, 300,000
injured, 70% buildings
destroyed
USGS was able to predict that
a large earthquake would hit
Haiti but were not sure exactly
where or when. 10 seismic
stations monitoring seismic
activity.
Local businesses – 30,000
commercial buildings
collapsed. Short term the
multinational companies
would be quick o recover but
local businesses may not
reopen. 20% jobs lost
Land movement – land north
of the fault tilted upwards,
exposing coral reefs, land
south subsided. Caused
localised tsunami killing 7
people. 1,000 landslides.
Caribbean And Gonave
Microplate along the Enriquillo
Plantain Garden Fault Zone
Haiti
Earthquake
Key:
Classify facts into background
and causes (how it happened),
social effects, economic effects,
environmental effects and
Prevention, Responses
AS SAMS
A2 SAMS
You will
have to
choose one
of these QS
earthquake
Plan
Living with earthquakesModifying vulnerability
Hazard mapping
Building codes
Earthquake kits
education
Eq awareness day
Research monitoring prediction
Tsunami warning system
Community preparedness
Modifying Loss
Relief/aid
Government/council recovery and
reconstruction plans
Living with earthquakes in HaitiModifying vulnerabilityModifying Loss
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