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2010, 7.

0 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE IN
HAITI
TOPIC: HAZARDS,FORM 4C, GEOGRAPHY
DONE BY: IZABELA SINGH

CONSEQUENCES RESPONSES
1. Utility/ infrastructure- Water, gas and the 1. Individual/ community - Behavioural approaches:
electricity supplies may be disrupted or get Adapting people’s behaviour to become less vulnerable
cut off, fires and explosions may occur eg. warning and forecast, evacuation, education, land-
due to the Burst gas pipes, there are many use zoning, hazard mapping and insurance
water contamination from sewage leakage
diseases spread in such conditions.

2. Liquefaction- Reclaimed land or loose 2.Regional- CDERA – Caribbean Disaster Emergency


sediments that are structured with water Response Agency (16 states) now called . CDEMA – Caribbean
may behave like a liquid during an Disaster Emergency
earthquake. Management AgencyRole of CDEMA
Make an immediate and coordinated response to any disaster,
picture showing Reduce vulnerability by providing info and guidelines,Collate
Liquefaction from accurate info about disasters in the region, Provide training for
1964 Niigata, Japan disaster management personnel, Maintain a dynamic website for
Earthquake provision of up-to-date info,Created hazard maps in 3 states
(Grenada for flood, landslides and coastal erosion, St.Lucia for
floods and landslides, Belize for coastal
erosion, wind/wave and storm surges), Assess damages and
needs Provision of relief: soldiers and officers dispatched,
water and food, monetary for re-construction.

DISCUSSION-The Caribbean island Haiti, has faced a number of


18 earthquakes between the years of 1562 to 2022. This is because
Haiti falls under the intersection of two massive plate boundaries, The
North American Plate and The Caribbean Plate.At 4.53 p.m. on 12
January 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti. Its epicenter
was 25 kilometres west of the capital, Port-au-Prince.These are some
estimates of the damage:220,000 people were killed, out of three
million living in or close to the capital. Another 300,000 were
seriously injured.105,000 houses collapsed.Perhaps 1.8 million were
left homeless.However, nobody will ever know the exact
numbers.Among the buildings destroyed were:the Presidential palace
1,300 schools and 50 health clinics must ministries, schools, and
hospitals.

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