Cause And Effects Of The Haiti Earthquake

The earthquake occurred on the 12th of January 2010, a slip along the conservative boundary situated along Haiti caused a significant earthquake with subsequent damaging aftershocks. As can be seen in figure 1 the shaking intensity was strongest at the epicentre of the

Illness and disease along with poverty still plague Haiti today. The effort to try and recover from the most recent earthquake tragedy has Haitians concerned. The conditions that they have endured in the past just to survive are worse than the conditions brought on by the earthquake. Some Haitian natives feel the Government is moving a bit slow in cleaning up and getting

NEW YORK—Starkies-Davis announced today a total donation of $8 million to organizations providing direct help to victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Starkies-Davis clients generated $6 million through global trading commissions

Earthquakes have afflicted the world since its inception. The sudden release of energy from volcanoes or displacing of earth plates can result in disasters of extreme magnitude. These usually naturally occurring phenomenon have been responsible from wiping out entire towns throughout history and until today continue to produce major loss of life and infrastructure. It can take years for a city or country to recover from a major event of this kind and when a third world country is involved, the result is usually exponentially worse than in a developed country. In the past decades Japan, Chile and Haiti have suffered the devastation an earthquake produces. This document will concentrate in Haiti, a small country in the Caribbean. On

The January 12, 2010 Haiti Earthquake caused an enormous destruction in the Caribbean nation. Hospitals and government buildings collapsed along with an unbelievable amount of homes. Tens of thousands of people were killed, and many more were wounded. The disaster added more misery to people already struggling to get by with everyday life. Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the world. The January 12 quake demolished almost every major building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. About 5,000 schools in the city were destroyed or damaged. Throughout Haiti, more than 220,000 people were killed, and more than 1 million were left homeless. A few days after the quake, the number of survivors stood at 121 as hopes of finding more became

On January twelfth 2010, a deadly earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit the coast of Port au prince, Haiti for 35 seconds, killing around 200,000 and leaving approximately to 1.5 million of the population homeless including kids who became orphans and vice versa in a matter of less than a minute. Before the earthquake, the way of life was not as bad as portrayed back at home, most of the news broadcasted in the mainstream media were exaggerated news, negative light and unfair tales to make Haiti look inferior.

The story of Haiti’s healthcare system is unfortunately tied all too closely to disaster, both man-made and nature-born. This paper will briefly discuss the pre-2010 earthquake healthcare environment in Haiti as the uncertainty that exists provides little opportunity to provide a reasoned understanding of its current national healthcare status.

The earthquake of 2010 altered the way the people of Haiti looked at everyday life, as well as, it caused them to be deprived of all hope on creating a new beginning. On Tuesday January 12, 2010, the Haitian society knew that their world would never be the same. Having killed over 300,000 people and wounded more than 200,000 people, the magnitude 7.0 earthquake was demoralizing to the Haitians (“The 2010 Haiti Earthquake”). To make matters worse, following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake there were twelve aftershocks containing a magnitude larger than 5.0 (“Earthquake in Haiti”). The outcome of the earthquake was devastating to the extent that the minority of people who survived stood on the remains of their churches, grocery stores, and even their own homes. Corporations like Merlin USA and others around the globe are contributing in various ways to help try to rebuild Haiti’s nation. Working to repair Haiti’s demolished society, Merlin tries to bring appropriate health care to all susceptible associations in Haiti (“Haiti”). Strongly, Merlin continues to put in a great effort and they have tended to around 47,986 patients merely in Port-au-Prince (“Haiti”). Sorrowfully, people are constantly dying from Cholera in Haiti; nevertheless, it seems to them that nothing the world can offer will be able to cure the adversity they have encountered.

In 2010, Haiti; a Caribbean country located on the island of Hispaniola, suffered a 7.0 magnitude earthquake which left the normally joyous people devastated, and the land, destroyed. Only six years after the paralyzing natural disaster, Hurricane Matthew struck the vulnerable nation plagued by poverty, leaving hundreds dead and “12.9% of the country’s population in need of humanitarian assistance”. Humanitarian assistance. As humans; ready, willing and able to help Haitians in need, public school systems fortunate enough to teach students who think of those less fortunate in the world, should not repress their desire to meet, help and experience the beautiful Haitian culture. The group of students at Wachusett Regional High School interested

On January 12, 2010 on of the world’s deadliest earthquakes struck Haiti. In his book, Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, Mark Schuller analyzes the presence of humanitarian aid agencies following the disaster. He discusses the impacts the aid had on the environment, development and globalization of Haiti.

Haiti experienced an earthquake on January 12, 2010 that left the people in a substandard state. It is reported about 3,500,000 people were affected by the earthquake and 220,000 people estimated to have died from it (2010). Many homes and institutions were destroyed including schools, hospitals and government establishments. Leaving much of the population in a dire need of humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian Intervention and development conducted over many years by the United States have hindered the country's government and people. In the attempt of rebuilding the worth and state the country once had, humanitarian intervention has done more harm than good. I will prove how intervention prior and post the earthquake has in more cases, continued to further diminish the possibility of development. The notion of United States intervention in Haiti is controversial; although interveners construct methods and policies that allow dependence, their

Author in the paper "Preparedness explains some differences between Haiti and Nepal’s response to earthquake" has explained the basic differences in response to the earthquake between these two countries from this own observation.(1) While his observation speaks that Nepal was more prepared to withstand Earthquake of this strength in terms of better medical and civil infrastructure and better awareness about personal protective behavior, he failed to point out the role of civil society, non-governmental organization and community health workers in immediate relief and response.

There are about 15 tectonic or lithospheric plates on the earth’s surface, which have different size and move relative to one another over the earth’s surface. As a result, the crust around the boundaries of the plates bends or deforms, accumulating strong energy during these processes (Briggs, 2006). When the strain becomes too great to bear by the crust in the future, the crust will snap or slip causing earthquakes. As a type of geophysical hazard, earthquakes are inevitable for mankind living on the Earth, which destroy tremendous buildings, and take human life away. However, influences of earthquakes can be reduced if people take appropriate actions. This report provide an overview of two earthquakes that happened in

The Haiti Earthquake was a major catastrophic event that shook the ground for around 35 seconds which registered 7.0 magnitude on the Richter Scale on January 12, 2010, at around 4:53 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The earthquake hit The Republic of Haiti with the epicenter near the capital of Haiti— Port-au-Prince region (“The Devastating Haiti Earthquake: Questions and Answers”). The region includes the cities of Carrefour, Petion-Ville, Delmas, Tabarre, Cite Soleil, and Kenscoff, which were severely affected by the quake. However, the city of Leogane, which was the city closest to the epicenter, took the brunt of the force damaging and destroying 80%-90% of structures in the area. The earthquake led to more than 316,000 people dead or missing, 300,000 wounded, and over 1.3 million displaced from their homes and the majority of the people devastated (DesRoches, et al.).

The island is located on a fault where the Caribbean plate and North American plate interact and diverge into two branches known as the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone in the South and Septentrional-Oriente fault in the North forming the Gonâve microplate (figure 5). This fault exhibits a strike-slip motion as the Caribbean plate moves eastwards relative to the North American plate. Haiti has historically experienced severe earthquakes with an M8.1 earthquake occurring in 1842 and two M7.5 occurring in 1751 and 1770 (Earthquake.usgs.gov, 2017). At 16:53 local time on 12th January 2010 a catastrophic M7.0 earthquake struck Haiti approximately 25km West of the Capital Port-au-Prince at a depth of 13km (figure 6).