Haiti

• 12th January 2010

  17:00

  measured 7 on the richter scale

  conservative plate boundary
• Caribbean and North American plate sliding past each other

  epicentre near the capital city

  25km from port—au-prince
• 3 million affected

  230,000 died

  300,000 injured

  1 million made homeless

  30,000 buildings collapsed
• 5,000 school damaged
• 2 million left without food or water

  regular power cuts
• pressure of plates sliding past each causes earthquake
• not prepared

  poor infrastructure

  poor governance - no emergency plan
• $8.7 billion cost
• by july - 98% rubble left uncleared

  1.6 million still in camps
• deforestation for charcoal is high = land slides were common
• increase in crime
• cholera outbreak
• 60% of port au prince destroyed
• poorest country in the Western Hemisphere
• shallow focus
• high youthful population
• geology - lose sediment
• buildings built on marginal land
• close to having a malaria breakout
• heavy roofs for hurricanes - worse for earthquakes
• 1/3 buildings collapsed
• 15000 died from cholera
• subsided prot delayed aid
• multi hazard zone - not returning to normalcy
• Geologists studied fault lines before - USGS