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Haiti Earthquake
By: Joseph, Lily and Veruska
Veruska
Location
Haiti is a Caribbean country, located in
the Western part of the island of
Hispaniola, which it shares with
Dominican Republic.
Veruska
Natural Disaster History
Haiti has a history of 57 natural
disasters. Such as various
earthquakes, hurricanes, cyclones,
floods, and tropical storms.
January 12 of 2010 Earthquake
Hurricane Sandy 2012
Flood
Cyclone
Tropical Storm Issac 2012
Tectonic Setting
Tectonic Plate Setting
Lily
Lily
The Haitian earthquake had the magnitude of 7.0! The main plate to cause such a massive earthquake to strike
was the Caribean.
Population
Most of the population in Haiti are poor.
Many of the houses were shacks. 3.5 million people
were affected by the earthquake, resulting 300 thousand
people to get injured and 200 thousand dead.
188 thousand homes were destroyed and 4,000 schools
wrecked.
Joseph
Past Response
Joseph
The past responses to the earthquake were that they would immediately ask for help from HDEC such as the USA
and ask for them to help them clean the mess and also try to find missing people, they would also not give
children any knowledge of what to do when a earthquake happens, which they shouldve because they live in a
country that is based on a history with a lot of natural disasters, and they wouldnt take the time to teach some of
their students the basics, and also most of the reactions of the people were to move out of the city or towns and
move with a family that lived far from the city. they aslo provided free medical care, providing shelter to the
homeless, improving water supplies,giving information on how to take care of an earthquake and giving tools and
seeds to about 100,000 farmers.
Lily
Proposal for future responses
For the future I am proposing to educate the people in Haiti’s schools. I think that this is important to do because then the children and
teenagers will know all about earthquakes and how they happen, why they happen, what to do etc. They need to know all this because then
they won’t be startled when it happens again and they will know why it is happening. We will make this happen by getting the schools to add it
into their curriculum, you will get the word across to the schools by announcements to the county and the schools.
As well as that we need to have monthly community and city earthquake drills. This should happen because then the people in Haiti will know
what to do when the actual earthquake happens. To make this possible we will have an alarm that tells the community when they are having
the drills. This goes as far as city drills to house, school, work etc. drills.
The last thing that we need to take charge in is getting the good scientist and technology in Haiti. We need this because then we will know
when the next earthquake will be. This will be very helpful because then it won’t be a surprise like the last one was.
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"Tectonics of the Haitian Earthquake."Highly Allochthonous. Web. 26 Nov. 2014. <http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2010/01/tectonics-ofthe-haitian-earthquake/>.
"Haiti." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Nov. 2014. Web. 26 Nov. 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti>.
"List of Natural Disasters in Haiti."Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Oct. 2014. Web. 26 Nov. 2014.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_dis
"Haiti Earthquake Facts and Figures."Disasters Emergency Committee. Web. 28 Nov. 2014. <http://www.dec.org.uk/haiti-earthquake-facts-andfigures>.
Thank you for your attention!
Lily, Joseph, Veruska
Have a nice day!