Haiti

Question 1

When was it?

Answer 1

12th January 2010 at 4;53 PM local time

Question 2

What plate boundary? Between whihc plates?

Answer 2

conservative
north american and caribbean

Question 3

What was Haiti’s population?

Answer 3

9 million

Question 4

What was the population density of Port Au Prince?

Answer 4

25,000 people/km squared

Question 5

What was Haiti’s GDP at the time?

Answer 5

695 US dollars

Question 6

Where was the epicentre in relation to Port Au prince?

Answer 6

Epicentre was 16km south-west of PAP

Question 8

what was the focus? Value?

Answer 8

shallow. 13km below the surface of the earth.

Question 9

How many people died?

Answer 9

230,000

Question 10

How many people injured?

Answer 10

300,000

Question 11

How may hospitals/health centres deestroyed?

Answer 11

8

Question 12

Name other damaged infrastructure.

Answer 12

buildings, roads, the airport and the PORT

60% of government buildings collapsed

Question 13

How many houses were destroyed?

Answer 13

100,000

Question 14

How many houses were damaged?

Answer 14

200,000

Question 15

How many Haitians were displaced?

Answer 15

1.3m

Question 16

What are some impacts to displacement?

Answer 16

• pyschological + emotional impact
  -economic consequence as there is likely increased poverty because displaced individuals may lack access to income, savings or social safety nets
• social disruption (can overwhelm local infrastructure, services and housing)
• educational barriers; Children often miss out on education, sometimes permanently

Question 17

How many people were left without food or water?

Answer 17

2 milliom

Question 18

Which disease broke out?

Answer 18

cholera

Question 20

What percentage of aid could actually make it to Haiti?

Answer 20

48%

Question 21

What was the economic damage?

Answer 21

7.8 billion US dollars in losses and damage

Question 22

What was another health hazard other than cholera?

Answer 22

dead bodies in the heat. this meant that mass graves had to be created.

Question 23

What did the USA and Uk provide?

Answer 23

• emergency rescue teams and engineers and divers to clear the worst of debris to get port operating again

Question 24

How much aid did the US send?

Answer 24

100 million dollars in aid
- also ships, helicopters and 10,000 troops for search and rescue teams

Question 25

What did the UN do?

Answer 25

-sent troops and police -set up a Food Aid Cluster to feed 2 million

Question 26

Was water purification tablets distributed a short or long term impact?

Answer 26

short... depends on how u flip it

Question 27

What caused people to be displaced?

Answer 27

- fleeing the damage - government moved 235,000 people from Port Au Prince to less damaged cities

Question 28

1 year after the earthquake, how many are still living in aid camps?

Answer 28

1 million people

Question 29

What percentage of the population still relies on support (through cash/food-for-work projects)?

Answer 29

70%

Question 30

In the long term, what happened to the education?

Answer 30

- temporaary schools created and new teachers training

Question 31

How many people eventually received water and sanitation supplies?

Answer 31

1.7 million

Question 32

What did UNICEF immediately do?

Answer 32

- supported emergency wards in health facilities ( provieded emergency health kits and medical supplied to hospitals and clinics, helped set up temporary health centers. When chlora broke out later in 2010, UNICEF helped deliver clean water, hygiene kits and oral rehydration salts (this was a lfiesaving treatment that replaces fluis and essential salts lost through diarrhoea, specifically in diseases like cholera))(these helped reduce the deaths from severe dehydration

Question 33

How much money was eventually giiven to Haiti for reconstruction?

Answer 33

-11 billion pledged by international donors for reconstruction

Question 34

What did they do to mitigate future problems w the earthquales?

Answer 34

- new building codes introduced to improve earth quake resistance. e.g.: - a requirement for reinforced concrete constructionw ith steel rebar and seismic deisgn priniciples, aiming to withstand future earthquakes. -Sttricter rules on material quality -only qualified engineers and architects are permitted to design public and multi-story buildings

Question 35

Name government buildings that were destroyed.

Answer 35

-Presidential Palace, National Assembly + main ministries

Question 36

What percentage of civil servants were killed?

Answer 36

25%

Question 37

How many cases of crime were reported in the months following the earthquake?

Answer 37

over 200,000