Haiti (LIC)

• Date and location

  • 12th January 2010
  • 7.0 Richter Scale
  • Caribbean plate, conservative plate boundary
• Primary effects


  • 60% of buildings collapsed
  • Approximately 316,000 deaths
  • Schools and hospitals destroyed
• Secondary effects


  • Outbreak of cholera, killing 8000
  • 2.3 million left homeless
  • Looting
  • 4000 inmates escaped
• Response


  • 10,000 NGOs
  • New building codes established
  • Grain silo built
  • Some debt written off
  • $13 billion in aid donated, but not distributed fairly due to the corrupt government
  • Used bottom-up redevelopment
• Recovery

  Haiti has still not recovered 14 years later