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Location
The earthquake was located 113 Miles from the plate boundary between the Caribbean Plate and the North American Plate
Transform/ conservative plate boundary with one plate sliding past another
There have been no large earthquakes in Haiti for 200 years
Earthquake was 7.3 on Richter scale,15km from the Capital Port au Prince and only 6 miles deep
HurricanesIn 2008 a thousand people were killed and up to a million
were made homeless after four hurricanes
struck around the important town of
Gonaives in as many weeks
Haiti has found it difficult to recover
from the cost of the damage caused by
the hurricanes in 2004 and 2008
Thousands of farms were destroyed and there was a national
food shortage
The hurricanes of 2008 have forced
hundreds of thousands more
people to flood into Port au Prince
Housing 3 Million people live in Port au Prince with
the majority living in slum conditions after
rapid urbanisation.
300,000 people live in the Cité
Soleil slum where there are no paved roads or sewers and
little to no water or electricity
supply.
Most houses are self built; made out of breeze blocks and scrap, with no
foundations or rules restricting height. Many
houses are built on steep hillsides.
Large families (as many as 15) live in cramped
conditions in the poorer houses
Poverty66% of the population of Haiti earn less than £1 a day with 56% of
the population classed as “extremely poor”
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western
Hemisphere
Many of the poorest people eat mud cakes
to stop them from feeling hungry
Many of the population of Port au Prince are
uneducated and work in informal jobs around
the city.
Political TroublesPresident Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown during rioting in 2004. The country has a new president René Préval but the government is very unstable. UN Troops patrol the streets.
People in Haiti blame the government for riots caused by the price of rice, beans and fruit rising by 50% from 2007-2008
Very little government money has been spent on improving the quality of buildings, hospitals and roads.
The government is now officially the most corrupt on earth!
Put the five factors in the order that you think were most to blame for the high
number of deaths
• Political troubles
• Housing
• Hurricanes
• Location
• Poverty
Least to blame
Most to blame
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