IMPACTS OF THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE
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The 2010 Haiti Earthquake was the strongest
earthquake to ever hit this region. It made a massive impact on the country as
nobody was prepared for this temblor. Geologist had warned people for years that
an earthquake would hit with an approximate magnitude of 7.0, but they couldn’t
predict when the earthquake would hit. As far back as 1998, Dixon, a professor of geophysics
at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, says he and five
colleagues published a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research warning of
seismic trouble brewing in Haiti. But again, they couldn’t say when.
The earthquake left the city in ruins, with a death toll topping two hundred thousand people and eighty percent of Haiti’s population below the poverty line. As Haiti is such a poor country their structures were poorly built and collapsed in the earthquake, as a result to this 1.5 million people were left homeless. Also, the ports in the nation’s capital were ruined by a collapse of cranes. As a result to this supplies were temporarily inhibited.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake also brought back an infectious disease called Cholera. Cholera is tiny rod shaped particles that thrive in unsanitary water. This disease causes severe vomiting and diarrhoea. The outbreak began in mid-October 2010 in the rural Center Department of Haiti, about 100 kilometres north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing 4672 people by March 2011 and hospitalising thousands more. The outbreak occurred ten months after the earthquake.
The total damages had reached $2.3 billion and required 1000 trucks working 24 hours for 5 years to get rid of all of the debris.
The earthquake left the city in ruins, with a death toll topping two hundred thousand people and eighty percent of Haiti’s population below the poverty line. As Haiti is such a poor country their structures were poorly built and collapsed in the earthquake, as a result to this 1.5 million people were left homeless. Also, the ports in the nation’s capital were ruined by a collapse of cranes. As a result to this supplies were temporarily inhibited.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake also brought back an infectious disease called Cholera. Cholera is tiny rod shaped particles that thrive in unsanitary water. This disease causes severe vomiting and diarrhoea. The outbreak began in mid-October 2010 in the rural Center Department of Haiti, about 100 kilometres north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing 4672 people by March 2011 and hospitalising thousands more. The outbreak occurred ten months after the earthquake.
The total damages had reached $2.3 billion and required 1000 trucks working 24 hours for 5 years to get rid of all of the debris.