Haiti Earthquake (2011)

• Haiti Earthquake


  2011
• Haiti


  • Poorest country in the Western Hemisphere
  • GDP is only $1,200 per person, 207th in the world
  • 80% of its 9.7 Million people live below the poverty line
• Port Au Prince


  The countries capital, on a fault line where the North American Plate is sliding under the Caribbean plate – a conservative plate boundary
• Catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti

  12th January 2010
• Earthquake


  • Measured 7.0 on the Richter Scale
  • Recorded 52 aftershocks
  • Epicentre was centred just 10 miles southwest of Port au Prince
  • Shallow—only about 10 km below the land's surface