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Summary GCSE Geography - Case Study: An Earthquake - Haiti
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Case study: An earthquake.Facts about Haiti
- Small country in the south-east of North America;
- Shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic;
- South-east of Cuba, south of the Bahamas, and north-east of
Jamaica;
- Surrounded by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, and the Atlantic
Ocean to the north;
- 72° west of GMP, and 18°-20° north of equator.
- LIC - poorest country in the Western Hemisphere;
- Third largest country in the Caribbean;
- Estimated population: 11.4million!
The earthquake
Date: 12th January 2010 Injured: 50,000
Time: 13:53 Homeless: 1,000,000
Magnitude: 7.0 ML (Richter scale) Orphaned: 380,000
Aftershocks: >52 and >4.5 ML Rescued: 1 in 16,588
Deaths: 230,000 Damage: $14 billion
Causes
- Haiti lies on the boundary of the Caribbean and North
American plates, which slide past one another in an east-
west direction;
- This is a conservative boundary;
- Stress builds up in points along the boundary and its faults;
- Eventually this stress is released in a sudden strong movement which causes
both plates to move and generate an earthquake;
- The fault system that ruptured this earthquake is called the Enriquillo-Plantain
Garden fault system;
- The unusually high magnitude of this earthquake was part of the reason for
the enormous damage to Haiti;
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