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haiti EARTHQUAKE 2021

JNB GEOGRAPHY12 PROJECT

Students: Edward , Leah , Nicholas Chan, Thi To Nga. Date: September 22, 2022

Historic Information

Haiti is renown for slavery, revolution, debt, deforestation and corruption. It is renown for being a poverty ridden state, overcrowding, no infrastructure, environmental disaster and large areas without rules & Regulation.

Land Scenery of Haiti

Land scenery of Haiti:

  • Haiti is one of the most beautiful countries in the Caribbean
  • misty mountain tops
  • turquoise waters
  • best known for The Citadelle Laferriere, a magnificent mountaintop fortress originally built after Haiti gained independence, in order to provide protection against French Invasion.

What's happening in Haiti?

Even before the earthquake, Haiti was facing multiple crises

  • Growing political instability
  • Growing gang-related violence and insecurity
  • Civil unrest rising food insecurity
  • Malnutrition
  • All of these challenges were further exacerbated by COVID-19.

01.

Basic CHARACTERISTICS of the EARTHQUAKE

The type of fault line: Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (strike-slip fault) Magnitude:

  • 7.2 earthquake on Richter Scale
  • The seismic wave of 7.2 magnitude was measured by a seismograph.

The type of stress:

  • The loading tension of another fault segment which can precipitate the rupture of a new earthquake.

02. basic CHARACTERISTICS of EARTHQUAKE

WHERE is the epicenter ?

the type of BOUNDARY :

  • Geologists discovered that
  • Haiti is between the North American Plate to the north and the Caribbean Plate to the south (transform boundary)
  • Near Petit-Trou-de-Nippes west of the capital, Port-au-Prince

02.Destruction and Loss

  • 2200+ death, 13000+ casualties. 329 missing
  • 130,000 houses collapsed, 60 health facilities were destroyed
  • US 1.6 billion of economic lost

03.BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE

DURING :

AFTER :

BEFORE:

  • Tsunami warnings
  • Ground liquefaction
  • Landslides on the Tiburon Peninsula
  • Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Grace
  • Haiti 2010, severe damage (316,000 casualties)
  • Built up tension between the 2 plates (North American and Caribbean Plates)
  • At least 900 Aftershocks
  • Heavy Rainfall with Floods

4. INTERESTING FACT

  • Impact on education
  • The help/ influence from the UNICEF
  • Political influence before and after the earthquake

Thanks for your attention!

JNB GEOGRAPHY 12