Haiti Earthquake:
What?
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake
When?
12th January 2010 at 16.53 local time (21.53 GMT).
Where?
The earthquake occurred 18.457°N, 72.533°W. The focus of the earthquake was 13km (8.1 miles) below the surface of the earth.
The short term effects of the Haiti earthquake are
· Buildings being destroyed, roads and docks. Making it difficult to get aid to the people who need it. Example food, clean drinking water, clothes, cooking utensils, temporally shelters and most importantly drugs and medicines.
· Without clean drinking water and dead bodies rotting in the hot sun the risk of life threatening diseases is expected.
The long term effects of the Haiti earthquake are
· Economic problems of people trying to re build their houses and business without the availability of money to buy such materials.
· Social problems of people who may of lost all their relatives worst of all are the children who have been left with no one to care for them.
· Lots of doctors and nurses had to do surgery outside because the hospitals were full of people and some the hospitals were destroyed.
Environmental Effects of the Haiti Earthquake:
1.Changes in geologic features
2.Damage to man-made structures.
3)Impact on human and animal life.
Most of these effects occur on solid ground, but as the Haiti foci are actually located under the ocean bottom, severe effects are observed along the margins of oceans.
Effects on People after the Haiti Earthquake:
The situation in Port-au-Prince is was at a critical point, with rotting corpses began filling the streets.
The cries of help that were being heard from the rubble have now been silenced - for many people it is simply too late.
Haitians feel very alone at the moment. The promise of aid had not yet materialised and many locals were still digging through the rubble with their hands.
Most of the bodies were covered in white bed sheets or rolled inside carpets, but others had been left exposed to the hot sun and the stench of rotting bodies had begun to fill the air.