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Haiti Earthquake
By: John Anthony Buono
When and where did the
Earthquake happen?
 The
earthquake happened on Tuesday,
January 12, 2010 at 4:53 p.m.
 Coordinates:
18.443 degrees N, and
72.571 degrees W
 Epicenter:
Prince
10 miles west of Porte- au-
Damage in Terms of People
 About
250,000 residences and 30,000
commercial buildings were damaged
 Their
 1.3
were about 300,000injuries
million people displaced from
their homes
Damage in terms of buildings
 The
earthquake caused about $14
billion in damage
 About
250,000 residences and 30,000
commercial buildings were damaged
What boundaries, and plates
were involved?

Tectonic Plates: Caribbean plate and the North
American plate

This plate boundary is dominated by left-lateral
strike slip motion and compression, with the
Caribbean plate moving eastward toward the North
America
The Faults involved
 Haiti
is between the Septentrional and
the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault
systems
Richter scale
 Richter
 At
scale: The magnitude was 7.0
that time, the earthquake was the
strongest one in 240 years
Fast Facts
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There were 33 little
quakes called
aftershocks
4 people died in a
tsunami that the
earthquake caused
The U.S Agency for
International
Development (USAID) has
given $655,000,000 to
help Haiti recover