Earthquake Example: Haiti 2010

Question 1

Deaths (1)

Answer 1

• Over 200,000

Question 2

Capital of Haiti (1)

Answer 2

• Port-au-Prince

Question 3

Why was the Haiti earthquake especially powerful (3)

Answer 3

• Earthquake occured on the Enriquillo fault
• Last major earthquake on this fault was 1770
• So 240 years of locked up energy was released
• Causing movement of 2 metres

Question 4

Why was short term aid mostly ineffective (3)

Answer 4

• Relief planes couldn’t land (as only part of the airport was usable)
• Phone lines failed (so communications were impossible)
• Language barrier (so some aid was in unnecessary abundance and some was non-existent)

Question 5

No. made homeless (1)

Answer 5

• 1.5 million

Question 6

Amount of schools damaged/destroyed (1)

Answer 6

• 4,500

Question 7

How many aftershocks and what was the largest one (2)

Answer 7

• 52 aftershocks
• Up to 5.9 magnitude

Question 8

Haiti GDP in 2010 (1)

Answer 8

• $6.6 billion

Question 9

A month after Haiti’s earthquake, one of ___ on the Richter Scale occured in _____, and yet only ___ were killed. This is due to a clear _______ and effective _______ (5)

Answer 9

• 8.8
• Chile
• 800
• DIsaster response plan
• Emergency systems

Question 10

Why did Haiti have an especially poor capacity to cope (4)

• Weak _______________
• Hadn’t _________________
• Poor _________
• No ___________________________

Answer 10

• Weak governance local and national scale
• Hadn’t recovered from 2008 hurricanes
• Poor building codes
• No public awareness of what do in the event of an earthquake

Question 11

Magnitude (1)

Answer 11

• 7.0

Question 12

Mercalli Scale (1)

Answer 12

• Intensity level 9

Question 13

Cost of damage and losses (1)

Answer 13

$8 billion

Question 14

How many died from the Cholera epidemic that followed the earthquake (1)

Answer 14

• 6900

Question 15

The 2010 Haiti earthquake is a ___________, a _____________ to cope with major natural hazards due to their ____________; stemming from ___________________ and ____________________

Answer 15

• definite bellwether
• sad indictment of the failure of LIC’s
• little capacity to cope
• weak governance on a local and national scale
• lack of disaster response planning.

Question 16

Epicentre (1)

Answer 16

• Located 25 km west of Port-au-Prince
• Shocks waves caused most damage in an area of high population density, exacerbating the impacts