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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