Haiti Earthquake

Haiti Earthquake

Basic Info
1. 12th January 2010
2. East side of the Carribean
3. Enriquillo Fault - transformative margin
  1. Carribean plate shifts East by 8cm per year
4. Epicentre at Port au Prince
  1. Shallow focus
5. Magnitude 7.0
Evaluation
1. Already one of the poorest countries in the world
  1. More than half below poverty line
2. Densely populated urban area
3. Lack of government infrastructure, money, governance
4. Poorly equipped emergency services and poor construction standards
IMPACTS
1. Human impacts
  1. 3.5 million affected
  2. 222,570 deaths
    1. Thousands are not accounted for
  3. 300,572 injured
  4. 2.3 million homeless
  5. 3500 children separated from parents
  6. 40% of camps had shelter material, only 3 had potable water
2. Social Impacts
  1. phone lines failed soon after
  2. 293,383 houses destroyed
  3. 4,758 schools damaged/destroyed
    1. 80% of schools
  4. 80-90% of buildings in Leogane destroyed
  5. UN headquarters with 80-100 staff members destroyed
3. Economic Impacts
  1. Main port in Port-Au-Prince and Airport destroyed
  2. $7.8 billion
    1. 120% of Haiti's GDP
RESPONSE
1. RELIEF
  1. International
    1. Fed 4.3 million people
    2. vaccinated more than 900,000 people against diseases like cholera
    3. set up more than 1,300 camps
    4. housed 1.5million people
    5. delivered water to 1.2 million
    6. maintained 11,000 latrines
    7. basic medical healthcare available and free
    8. CHRISTIAN AID
      1. Immediate medical care to over 15,000
      2. over 237,000 hot meals to survivors
      3. over 2,3000 families received food parcels/vouchers
      4. over 10,000 hygiene kits
      5. emergency shelter to 2,500 families
2. REHABILITATION
  1. some still living in tents
  2. cholera brought into country by UN workers - NGO emergency treatment centres - water purification tablets
  3. CHRISTIAN AID
    1. 1,400 tools and seeds for planting
    2. cash for 1000 families for businesss
    3. therapy for 7,800
    4. educated 900 families about hygiene
    5. school fees for over 900 families
3. RECONSTRUCTION
  1. Prepare for future earthquakes
  2. access to water and sanitation
  3. building resilience
  4. quake resistant housing
  5. micro credit schemes for small businesses
  6. CHRISTIAN AID
    1. Building 370 permanent, hurricane and quake resistant houses
    2. training 250 in construction

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