Haiti´s 2010 Earthquake and Its Effect
[2024-02-25 10:38:40]
INTRODUCTION On January 12, 2010, people in Haiti were destroyed by the 15-mile earthquake in Port-au-Prince. The scale of the earthquake was zero, and many aftershocks occurred after the first earthquake. This disaster caused very catastrophic damage, many people were killed, injured, about 300 thousand people were injured, more than 1 million people were left homeless. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, and he is still trying to rebuild himself. (Hain Earthquake Poster, USGS Press Room) How did earthquakes occur on known fault lines between conservative plate boundaries of North America and the Caribbean plate?
The 2010 Haiti earthquake, His great earthquake on Hispaniola Island of West Indies on January 12, 2010 including Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Haiti was the most affected, accounting for one-third of the western part of the island. The exact number of deaths proved to be elusive in subsequent confusion. The official figures of the Haitian government exceed 300,000 people, but estimates other than that are negligible. Hundreds of thousands of survivors evacuated. The earthquake occurred around 4:53 pm, about 25 miles southwest of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince (25 km). The initial magnitude was 7.0, and the two aftershocks of magnitude 5.9 and 5.5 occurred very early. Further aftershocks occurred in the next few days, including aftershocks of magnitude 5.9 at Petit Goo, about 35 miles west of Port-au-Prince on January 20.
Just a few minutes before 5 pm on January 12, 2010, the Haitian island of the island was hit by a catastrophic earthquake of magnitude 0. The epicenter was located 16 miles west of Haiti's most populous city, the capital was Port-au-Prince. Estimates vary, but about 150,000 to 300,000 people died and millions are affected. Myriad homes, schools, government, hospital buildings collapsed. After the disaster, Dr. Vanessa Rouzier, a famous spokesman for the Haitian medical system, cooperated with the Department of Health and Human Services to provide emergency medical services to more than 3,000 trauma patients. Her non-governmental organization (NGO) Les Center GHESKIO (abbreviation for Haiti's research on Kaposi's sarcoma and opportunistic infection) turns its 3 acre campus into capacity for more than 10,000 people. The city of the tent Rouzier is always committed to maintaining the organization's traditional life-saving service
At 4:53 pm local time on 12th January 2010, Haiti suffered a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. This is the worst earthquake in the country for more than 200 years. According to the report, 200,000 to 300,000 people died in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 1.6 million people lost their homes. The country has not recovered from the 2010 earthquake and the subsequent cholera epidemic in Haiti was caused by cholera infected waste at the UN peacekeeping base contaminating the country's main river, Artibonite. According to reports, about 10,000 Haitians died in 2017 and nearly 1 million people were sick. After years of denial, the United Nations apologized in 2016, but as of 2017, they refused to accept mistakes, so avoiding financial responsibility