Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

• When it happened: January 12th, 2010 at 4:53 pm.
• Magnitude: 7.0 on the Richter scale
• Location: Port-Au-Prince, focus - 13 km underground, epicentre 25 km away
• Occurred at conservative plate margin (Caribbean and North American plates)
• Over 220,000 deaths (PE)
• 300,000 injured (PE)
• 1.3 million made homeless (PE)
• 8 hospitals, 500 schools and 30,000 commercial buildings destroyed/collapsed (PE)
• Businesses destroyed and damage to main clothing industry (PE)
• Airport and port damaged (PE)
• Homeless accommodated in 1100+ squalid camps with limited services, e.g: water and sanitation - people lived in these for over a year (SE)
• Cholera claimed the lives of 8183 people, mainly children (SE)
• Storms and flooding caused further hardships in the camps, services (water, sanitation and communication) were disrupted (SE)
• 19 million m^3 of rubble and debris created huge job to clean up (SE)
• Crime increased - looting and sexual violence, government crippled (SE)
• Aftershocks caused 6.1 magnitude earthquake on 20th January 2010 (SE)
• Aid arrived from abroad in the form of food, water medical supplies and temporary shelters from USA and Dominican Republic (IR)
• UN and USA provided security to maintain law and order and ensure fair distribution of aid (IR)
• UK's Disaster Emergency Committee raised over £100 million which was used for emergency shelters, medical consultations, clean drinking water and sanitation (IR)
• 3/4 of buildings were inspected and repaired (LTR)
• 200,000 people received cash/food for public work (LTR)
• Several 1000s of people moved away to stay with family (LTR)
• World Bank pledged $100 million to support reconstruction and recovery programmes (LTR)