Haiti and New Zealand

Sugeest why the effects if tectonic hazards vary between areas of contrasting wealth.

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People in low income countries are more at risk to the effects of tectonic hazard than those in high income countries.

The unavailability of trained scientists to monitor and predict the hazards, good emergency services, medical services and bad living condition which are associated with low income countries make them more vulnerable to the effects of tectonic hazards.

Information about the Earthquake in newzealand

* New Zealand’s South Island on 22nd february **2011**
* located on the plate boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates -
* the plate boundaries moves in 2 ways destructive and conservative.
* The epicentre was **10 KM away from Christchurch; the second highest popluated city in newzealand.**
* had a shallow focus with depth of 5km
* **the magnitude was 6.3 on the richter scale**
* lasted for 12 seconds

New Zealand long term repsonses from the earthquake

* $898 million in building insurance claims.
* Water and sewerage were restored to the city by August 2011.
* education
* urban planning and building regulations to mitigate future risks
* Areas zones to assess damage
* NewZealand provided equipment, transport, evacuation, food and water to 1000 homeless people as a result of the earthquake

New Zealand short term repsonses from the earthquake

• Australian government donated 6.7 million to the red cross appeal

• Aid workers from charities such as red cross came to help

• Australian forces joined forces with New Zealand forces to enforce condones, organise evacuations, help with search and rescue, traffic control and prevention of looting.

• 300 Australian police officers were flown in

  • search and rescue teams came fro New Zealand, Australlia, UK, USA, JApand,

• full emergency response plan within 2 hours

• satellite imagery was used to coordinate the response plan within 2 hours of the earthquake.

New Zealand Primary effects

* 181 people were killed
* 2000 injured
* Economic cost= 3.5 billion
* over 50% of the city destroyed
* liquefaction produced 40000 tonnes of silt
* land damaged, cannot be built on again
* 27000 chemical toilets were flown into the area
* sanitation and sewerage were damaged

New Zealand secondary effects

* schools were closed for 2 weeks
* 1/5th of the population out-migrated
* 2200 people had to live in temporary housing
* Businesses closed for a loong time
* 5 Rugby World cup matches were cancelled

Haiti location

* small island in the South east of North America

Information about the earthquake

* occured on january 12th, 2010, 17 local time
* 25 Km from Port-au-Prince (the capital)
* Focus was 13km deep
* 7 magnitude
* conservative plate boundary between the North American plate and the Caribbean plate

Haiti primary effect

* 220000 people were killed
* 300000 people were killed
* 8 hospitals collapsed
* 100000 houses were destroyed
* 200000 houses were damaged
* 1.3 million people became homeless

Haiti secondary effects

* 2 million people left without food
* regular power cuts
* crime increased - (looting and sa)
* by November 2010 there was an outbreak of cholera
* people moved into temporary shelters

Haiti immediate responses

* port damaged- aid slow to arrive
* USA sent - rescue teams and 10000 troops
* 235000 people moved from port - au - prince to less damaged cities
* 20 million donated by the UK government

Haiti Long-Term responses

* Haiti dependent on Overseas
* Port needed rebuilding which required a large amount of investments
* slow response but new homes built at higher standard
* Over one million people still lived in temporary shelters one year after earthquake

Best compare and contrast data with Haiti and New Zealand

* In Haiti rescue teams took over 48 hours to arrive
* where as 2 hours in New Zealand


* hospital has weak foundation so most (8) hospitals collapsed where as in New Zealand due to prior evaluation hospital was built in high quality so it survived
* so many people died with easily treatable injuries such as broken limbs
* Haiti more densely populated
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