Needless to say, the effect of this earthquake on the people of Haiti was horrible. Before the earthquake, Haiti was already an underdeveloped country, but after the earthquake, it became even worse. With death and hopelessness everywhere, thousands of Haitians were forced into absolute poverty, which further upset their economy. The earthquake itself killed around 233,000 people. If a building did not fall on you and crush you to death, than other problems awaited you. Just walking around in Haiti could make you sick from all of the pollution, the stench and infection from dead bodies that lay in the open all over the streets. Trying to drink the infected water could easily kill a person who tried to drink it. A large number of people were
New Madrid earthquake of 1811-1812 was known to be “one of the most powerful earthquake felt throughout the Eastern United State”(2,75) . “December 16, 1811 at 2 a.m”(1). , the first earthquake had struck in the Northern part of Arkansas through Missouri. “This earthquake occurred in Central Mississippi Valley”(2,2) . New Madrid fault is located in the northern part of Missouri and southern part of Illinois. On the morning of December 16, 1811, when the earthquake struck; “people were scared”(10,26) , they ran out of their houses as the trees were falling onto the ground and the ground was breaking up. After the earthquake ended, around 7 a.m., one of the largest aftershock occurred and it was known to be a destructive shock because
Currently, almost two years ago Haiti was struck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. It sparked an international urge to help aid and relieve Haiti of its catastrophe. Not only governments in various countries reached out, but independent organizations as well. This disastrous event showed how the world could come together when their neighbor is in need. But prior to this 2010 earthquake, Haiti was already facing devastation other than a natural one - societal.
The Age of Revolutions was a period of time in which many global revolutions took place, especially within America and Europe. A revolution is an overthrow of government or social order in favour of political change. There were many revolutions that took place between 1760 and 1840, most notable being the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783, and the French Revolution beginning in 1789 and ending in 1799. These, along with the Napoleonic Empire, which carried on from the French Revolution and lasted until 1815; all greatly transformed the Atlantic world. This occurred through these global revolutions, which inspired another revolution within the slave island of Haiti. The focus of this essay will be on the aforementioned revolutions,
There are about 15 tectonic or lithospheric plates on the earth’s surface, which have different size and move relative to one another over the earth’s surface. As a result, the crust around the boundaries of the plates bends or deforms, accumulating strong energy during these processes (Briggs, 2006). When the strain becomes too great to bear by the crust in the future, the crust will snap or slip causing earthquakes. As a type of geophysical hazard, earthquakes are inevitable for mankind living on the Earth, which destroy tremendous buildings, and take human life away. However, influences of earthquakes can be reduced if people take appropriate actions. This report provide an overview of two earthquakes that happened in Haiti and Chile in 2010, and compare and contrast these two earthquakes to see how the consequences of earthquakes can be reduced.
There have been many natural disasters all around the world that devastate the place that they hit. In the Atlantic coast, Hurricane sandy was a very powerful cyclone that hit many locations along the Atlantic such as Jamaica, Haiti, Bahamas, Canada and east coast of the United States. Hurricane Sandy was the second-worst damaging storm and the deadliest to hit the United States after Hurricane Katrina. It “began as a tropical wave in the Caribbean on October 19” (Sharp, T. (2012, November 27) later developing into a “tropical depression and a tropical storm in just six hours” (Sharp, T. (2012, November 27). Initially, Sandy started as a storm but later was upgraded to a hurricane when its “maximum sustained winds reached 74 mph (119kph) on October 24, 2012(Sharp, T. (2012,
Haiti is the unequivocally the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, indeed, the country is so poor that its citizen cannot even afford eating foods and Haitian children need to eat dirts to stay alive. [1] Nevertheless, Haiti is the home to the only successful slave rebellion; Toussaint Louverture, last governor of French Saint-Domingue, was born a slave.
Many believe for this very mighty superstorm to be engineered storm by the United States government. This hurricane was called “Hurricane Sandy”. The president of the United States is to believed to man make this storm because he wanted to become President of the United States. This certainly did help him because he did end up winning. The hurricane damaged millions of people’s lives all along the U.S. border, they claim that the storm was man made, and it happened because a person, a person, wanted to win presidency.
The Haiti earthquake that occurred on January 12, 2010 just fifteen miles south of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was a severely large-scale earthquake, at a magnitude of 7.0. The initial shock was then followed by a series of aftershocks with magnitudes ranging up to 5.9. Over three hundred thousand people died due to this extreme chaos. Many buildings collapsed and disintegrated under the force of the quake; both the cathedral and National Palace in Port-au-Prince were heavily damaged. In the aftermath of this tragedy, efforts to aid the people of Haiti with medical assistance, water, and food were hampered by the loss of communication lines as well as by roads blocked by debris. Over one million people were left homeless due to this quake. Two days after the earthquake, journalist Leonard Pitts wrote “Sometimes the Earth is Cruel,” an article describing how the people of Haiti responded to the disaster. In “Sometimes the Earth is Cruel,” a major theme is that some things are inevitable.
Earthquakes can cause significant damage to building via waves of energy that propagate from the epicenter. The waves cause the ground to move, which can create structural failure of buildings, resulting in collapse or partial failure. Although the waves cause significant damage, what happens to the structure after the earthquake? A common theme from the 1906 California earthquake was fire. Two images in the text with descriptions, explained that the building had partially withstood the quake, only to burn down later.
In the past few years alone, Haiti has been the victim of constant hurricanes, mud slides, and flooding in addition to a severe drought in the
The effects caused by earthquakes are devastating. They cause loss of human life and have effects on infrastructure and economy. Earthquakes can happen at any time anywhere. In January 12, 2010 an earthquake of a magnitude of 7.0 hit the nation of Haiti. An estimation of 316,000 people were killed, and more than 1.3 million Haitians were left homeless (Earthquake Information for 2010). Haiti was in a terrified chaos. After the earthquake, families were separated because many of the members were killed. Homes, schools, and hospitals were demolished. People lost their most valuable belongings. It will take time for the country to recover from this terrible disaster. The long damages are economic issues, health-state, and environmental issues that effect in the beautiful island of Haiti.
On October 29th, 2012, Superstorm Sandy devastatingly hit the eastern coast of the United States, damaging much of the region, with a majority of New Jersey’s shore-towns and communities off the coast (many previously affected by sea level rise) destroyed. The often, vibrant and dynamic, yet gentrified city of Hoboken, New Jersey, soon became a swimming pool. The severe rain and storm surge, left many residents stranded in their homes and without power, for as long as two weeks. The storm quickly raised awareness for the city’s environmental vulnerability, and created strong need for resiliency in rebuilding, and being prepared when looking forward to other storms.
Hurricane Matthew assaulted Haiti with deadly fury, destroying homes, crops, livestock, and transportation. The top United Nations official in Haiti described this disaster as the “largest humanitarian event” in the country since the devastating earthquake six years ago. According to The National Hurricane Center in Miami, ”... the storm was moving north at 10 miles an hour toward eastern Cuba and the Bahamas. The center projected 15 to 25 inches of rain for southern Haiti and in the southwestern part of Dominican Republic, and it warned as much as 40 inches of rain may fall in some areas.” This category four hurricane made the sea levels rise drasticly altering Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.
With the earthquake in Haiti back in 2010 the people of many countries all banded together to provide food, support, and money for the country as it recovered. With all this assistance and provisions many expected that there would be a quick recovery however “Six months after the quake as much as 98 percent of the rubble remained uncleared.” Some of this could be chalked up to the response to the event being extremely messy, however later it was realized that out of the 6.04 billion U.S. dollars only 0.6 percent of it was actually used to provide aid for the people of Haiti, the rest of it was either used to make the individuals in the government richer or was given to non-haitian organizations. When individuals are given the freedom to become
It submerged one-fifth of the country. This enormous natural disaster impacted an estimated 18 million people and caused more than 12 million people to become homeless due to damages or total destruction to their homes. The death-toll from this incident reached 1,985 people. It also destroyed hundreds of hectares of cultivatable land and crops with an estimated death of 1.2 million livestock, causing the poor families who were dependent on them for food to cripple. This caused all the foods to rise in price, making it harder for poorer people to survive. The country also suffered more than 10 billion US dollars in damages to infrastructure, irrigation systems, bridges, houses and roads. The economic consequences for the country were estimated to be as much as 43 billion US dollars. This devastating event also caused approximately 11 million people to displace in order to find food and drinkable water.