Haiti - 2010

Date

12th January 2010

Magnitude

7.0

Boundary and what plates between

Conservative - North American and Caribbean

Deaths

230,000

Injured

300,000

Homeless

1.5 million

Homes collapsed

250,000

Disease outbreak

Cholera

Deaths caused by cholera

10,000

Depth of focus

13km - shallow

International aid - amount

$100 million from USA

Short-term responses

• UN relief troops

• Temporary shelters

• Field hospitals

Speed of reconstruction and why

Slow due to corruption and lack of coordination

What were there concerns about?

Aid dependency

Unemployment rates

90%

Poverty rates

70% of people lived on less than $2 per day

Access to clean water

33%

Education rate

Only 35% of population could read

Economic cost

US $14 billion

Jobs lost

8.5% of all jobs lost