HAITI EARTHQUAKE

• The magnitude of the Haiti earthquake was 7.0
• The Haiti earthquake occurred on Tuesday 12th January at 4.53pm local time.
• PRIMARY EFFECT:

  SOCIAL: Over 200,000 deaths

  Hospitals destroyed

  1.3 million homeless

  ECONOMIC: 1.3 million homeless

  200,000 deaths

  30,000 buildings collapsed
• A secondary economic effect was that crimes had increased and many shops were looted.
• People til this day are still displaced from the Haiti earthquake in 2010
• A response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 was running literacy classes for 60,000 vulnerable women so they can support themselves.
• An immediate response to the Haiti earthquake was search and rescue teams being sent out.