Haiti

• Earthquake

  • GDP $1,200
  • Occured in Port-au-Prince
  • On 12 January 2010
  • 7 Magnitude on the Richter scale
• Primary Impacts

  • >220,000 deaths
  • 8 hospitals destroyed
  • 30,000 commercial buildings destroyed
  • airport damaged located in Port-au-Prince
  • 300,000 injured
  • 100,000 houses destroyed
• Secondary Impacts

  • 1 in 5 jobs lost
  • 6% of population affected by cholera , 9,000 deaths
  • 2 million people left without food
  • 1.3 million made homeless
  • increase in time for aid to arrive
  • $7.8 billion estimated economic impact