Before
Location
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Haiti is located under North America and is in between Coba and Puerto Rico.The capital of Haiti is Port-au-Prince.The Haiti earthquake happened on the West Indian island of Hispaniola comprising the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The shaking started just 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince. The Caribbean isn’t a common place for earthquake but they’re not unheard of in the region.
Date of Event
The Haiti earthquake happened on January 12th 2010 on Tuesday at 4:53pm. This one of the worst earthquakes that have hit Haiti in 200 years.
Natural Features
Haiti has a relatively simple landscape because of its small size so it didn’t have many features that were destroyed. The island is marked off by rugged mountains, fertile valleys and offshore islands.
Cultural Features
The earthquake destroyed 70% of buildings, it destroyed the Presidential Palace. “When you walk around the country’s capital Port-au-Prince, you still see half-destroyed buildings around town the wounds are still here, and everyone says that they’re living in worse conditions than before.” Says photographer Gael Turine from Time.inc.
During
Hazard Details
The magnitude of the Haiti earthquake was 7.0 and it struck near Port-au-Prince the depth of this earthquake is also important, the depth of the Haiti earthquake was 6.2 miles below the earth’s surface. This earthquake didn’t have a tsunami warning because it happened on land not out in the ocean. This devastating earthquake killed more than 160,000 people and displaced close up to 1.5 million. Haiti is a poor country which this didn’t help with the earthquake. Causes of Hazard |
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Haiti is situated along the boundary between the Caribbean and North America plates. They fit together like a giant jigsaw puzzle. These two plates constantly creep past each other about 0.8 inches a year.
Short-term impacts
This devastating earthquake killed more than 160,000 people and displaced close to 1.5 million people, one and a half million were living in camps, 4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed and 3 million people were in need of emergency aid. They buried the dead to stop the spread of diseases. The major short-term impacts mainly involved search and rescue and helping the injured.
Long-term impacts
Haiti are building new shelters, rebuilding transport roots, building new defences and improvement of tsunami warning system. Many schools in Haiti are teaching the children about the risks of hazards and how they can be prepared for another hazard. Haiti thinks that Port-au-Prince will shake again. Many countries supported Haiti by giving them donation money, The Dec appeal raised £107 million and $9,548.6 million official donors spent on emergency responses.
After
Social Factors
The population of Haiti is 10, 700,00. The education in Haiti makes the impacts worst because 50% do not attend school, 75% of children at the end of first grade and nearly half of kids finishing grade could not read a single word and 80% of teachers have not received any pre-service training. Most people in Haiti over the age of 25 has less than 5 years of schooling. The health in Haiti lacks clean water and universal health care. 80% of Haiti only live up to 63 years old. A university hospital opened in Haiti since the earthquake 744,000 people have become sick from a disease called Cholera and nearly 9000 have died from this.
Cultural Factors
The beliefs in Haiti are 90% and over are catholic, thousands of households are for protestant ministers and the rest believe in voodoo. The language spoken in Haiti is French or Haitian Creok French. The laws in Haiti are very low its very common for people to be tortured or kidnapped.
Economic Factors
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Haiti lacks high employment, 71% are unemployed. The main income is $350 a year but 31% that live in urban areas mostly earn up to $409 per year ($3 a day). Haiti lacks a stable economy their global ranking is 150th. The currency is Haitian Gourde.
Management of future hazards
Haiti is a poor country so it’s hard for them to build a good way to prevent hazards but they are installing new equipment and programs to protect the country.
Conclusion
The Haiti earthquake was devastating the cultural features and the natural features was affected so was the cultural factors and the economic factors. The factors that made the impact worst was the social factors because many people were in desperate need of aid which then lead to a disease called Cholera which many dies from this. Although management of future hazards have made the impact less worse because they are improving the equipment and programs to help protect the country. Haiti will be more prepared in the future than they was in 2010 because they are trying to improve the equipment to help with hazard waring. But Haiti need to improve on building a stronger community to help the awareness of hazards.
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