Seismicity case study: Haiti Earthquake, 12th January 2010

Question 1

When was the earthquake?

Answer 1

12th January 2010

Question 2

What is Haiti’s population?

Answer 2

9.8 million

Question 3

Whats the GNI per annum per person?

Answer 3

$660

Question 4

What % of GDP were remittences in 2008?

Answer 4

32%

Question 5

What was the earthquake caused by?

Answer 5

movement in the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system

Question 6

How long had the fault been locked for?

Answer 6

over 250years

Question 7

How much did the land move?

Answer 7

1.8 metres

Question 8

What richer and mace scale was the earthquake?

Answer 8

r=7 m=9

Question 9

How far was the focus and epicentre from the capital of Port-au-Prince?

Answer 9

f=13km e=25km

Question 10

How many aftershocks were experienced at 4.5 or greater?

Answer 10

52

Question 11

What % of the population live on less than $2 a day?

Answer 11

70%

Question 12

How many people had access to clean tap water?

Answer 12

33%

Question 13

What is the IMR?

Answer 13

86 per 1,000 live births

Question 14

What had occurred due to a high unemployment rate of 90%?

Answer 14

rural-urban migration

Question 15

What % of people in Port-au-Prince lived in slum conditions?

Answer 15

86%

Question 16

How many people live in poverty?

Answer 16

4/5

Question 17

Due to the log history of unstable/ineffectual governments what did this mean?

Answer 17

there was no plan, and preparation for an event like this

Question 18

How many buildings collapsed in Port-au-Prince?

Answer 18

70%

Question 19

How many people were killed?

Answer 19

230,000

Question 20

How many deaths did the cholera epidemic cause?

Answer 20

6,900

Question 21

How many were left homeless and living in tented camps?

Answer 21

1.5million

Question 22

What was the cost of the damage and losses?

Answer 22

$8billion

Question 23

By July 2010 what % of the rubble still remained?

Answer 23

98%

Question 24

What % of jobs had disappeared?

Answer 24

20%

Question 25

What was there a lack of in terms of planning?

Answer 25

lack of a coherent emergency plan for a disaster

Question 26

What was one of the main causes for lack of communication?

Answer 26

NGOs didn't speak french

Question 27

Which country were the first to send in aid and what did they also do to help?

Answer 27

Dominican republic, opened there boarders

Question 28

How many deliveries of water was there a week?

Answer 28

one a week

Question 29

How many camps were set up?

Answer 29

1500

Question 30

How much of Haiti's debt did the World Bank cancel?

Answer 30

1/2

Question 31

What type of projects did the World Bank set up?

Answer 31

community-driven development projects

Question 32

What was Haiti's main problem to do with their responses?

Answer 32

they were stuck in the short term without considering the long term

Question 33

Whats a positive they now have?

Answer 33

containers and lorries full of first response disaster equipment