haiti earthquake (2010)

• magnitude of 7.0 on the ritcher scale
• happened 16 miles from the capital port-au-prince
• haiti is an lic
• primrary effects

  • 220000 deaths
  • 220 000 homes destroyed
  • 300 000 injured
• secondary effects

  • 1 million homeless
  • cholera outbreak
  • $ 1.5 billion economic loss
  • 1 in 5 job loss
• immidiate responces

  • $ 100 million aid sent by usa
  • over 1 million people placed in camps
• long-term responces

  • work for cash and food programmes
  • haiti had dept to the world bank but the waived for 5 years