In Port-au-Prince infrastructures were severely damaged, such as buildings, power grids, and water systems by the lack of planning which resulted in the aftermath of the magnitude of the 2010 earthquake.
According to Baldridge, Lang, Marshall & Popp, Haiti’s lack infrastructure was due to an absence of planning for the event of natural disasters. “There were nonengineered buildings experienced structural failures due to a lack of engineering design considering seismic hazards, substandard and uncontrolled construction, and poor building material quality” (Baldrige, Lang, Marshall & Popp, 2011, p. 323). The authors focus on the construction planning, which requires examining the land use around Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas, and the building materials used to construct the
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buildings. They do this by conducting series of surveys along a short route of downtown Port-au-Prince, which lead to result of total of 107. Out of the 107 buildings 30 were severely damaged or collapsed according to Baldrige, Lang, Marshall & Popp. Damage to infrastructures was mainly due to lack of earthquake resistant design, according to Baldridge, Lang, Marshall & Popp (2011). Authors Flavio Bono and Eugenio Gutierrez (2011) examined structural damages on the urban accessibility networks by using essential geography techniques and GIS databases for the case of the 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti.
The authors do this by calculating a more specific data past the typical arrangement of closed streets damaged after the natural disaster; this article examines how the falling buildings damaged the systems of streets. This work joins chart hypothesis and GIS spatial examination to assess the diminished openness of the entire urban space. “Just like when travelling within a maze, the traditional blocked roads survey is not always capable of fully capturing the impact of the disruptions on the urban blocks at a city-wide scale” (Bono & Eugenio, 2011, p. 1443). The authors do this by investigating the inability to travel freely along the urban streets and the blockage of emergency efforts to certain areas. The author offers a strategy to measure the destruction caused by the earthquake consolidating basic chart hypothesis ideas and GIS-based spatial investigation. This evaluates how the urban space openness diminishes when the street organization is
harmed. Fan et al. (2013), analysis the previous studies on relief eruptions and after effects on the natural disaster from the massive 2010 earthquake. The authors discuss and compare many models of slope sustainability mechanism that respond to ground vibration caused by an earthquake-triggered landslide. They evaluate the landslides that were caused by the 7.0 magnitudes Haiti earthquake that occurred on January 12, 2010. They evaluate and assess Port-au-Prince by using different authors data when using different mapping techniques. Geological information is obtained from surface deformation caused by ruptures, debris, soil and rock falls. This article focuses on the earthquake and the aftermath damages such as aftershocks and other triggered events in resulting the 2010 earthquake.
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.
Eleven years ago Hurricane Katrina hit us, hard. The levees failed to do what they were made for. It was both a natural and man made disaster that was destined to happen and too late to stop. The damage has been done; the lives lost. But this storm, awful as it was, did more than destroy. The hurricane brought people closer as we cleaned up cleaned up after it’s mess. There were people donating, volunteering. It all just goes back to show our identity as Americans. It shows that even when we get knocked down, we always resurface, united as one, and if that isn’t our identity; I don’t know what is.
On January 12, 2010, while vacationing in Santo Domingo, DR. Tragedy hit and my strong foundation no longer stood. An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 shook and uprooted homes, places of business and my sense of peace. After hearing news of the earthquake, I rush to Port-au-Prince to check on my family. I was reassured that my family was secured and had no life threatening injuries, but the same was not said to my grandparent’s neighbor. Their neighbor suffered from a head injury and deep laceratio...
After the shock of Hurricane Katrina slightly diminished, the Congress ordered a congressional inspection of the federally build levee system. As they dug deeper into the cause of the levee’s failure, they began to discover flaws in the actual engineering of the levees. Three of the levees that had the most prominently negative effect on the city, and ...
Revolutions are the worst thing for a nation 's economy, especially if the country is a non-white nation in the 19th century. The colony of Saint - Domingue (modern day Haiti) witnessed the impact that a brutal civil war can have on the nation and its inhabitants. Original a pirate outpost and later sugar plantations, the island was deemed an important trading and military post in the Caribbean. It served as a place where ships coming to and from North America could stop, resupply, and trade before heading off to their intended destinations. Eventually supplying Europe with a majority of its sugar and indigo, Haiti was the financial powerhouse that kept France strong during its turbulent revolution. Moreover, Haiti was not only an economic
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.
Haiti When it comes to culture, I believe it is the characteristics of a person, or a group, that makes them unique. Everyone is somehow different, and not everyone has the same beliefs. “Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.” (Kim Ann Zimmermann, Live Science 2017) The Republic of Haiti declared its independence against France on 1 January 1804.
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
I believe nothing could have wiped the grin off my face once the airplane finally landed in Port Au Prince, Haiti on June 1st. Everything was a blur, everyone in a hurry to get off the plane to claim their baggage and reunite with their loved ones. My family and I piled into two separate cars, one for our luggage and the other for us to ride in. There was no mistaking the cloud of excitement in the air, and the happiness radiating off of everyone in the car, especially me. Driving through Haiti is an experience like no other, on both sides of the roads are merchants dressed in floral patterns, attempting to sell their goods to those in cars, and pedestrians, all walking to some unknown destination, in between the cars were motorcycles navigating
Building conditions, and low incomes that do not allow the city to improve building conditions to the level required, nor to better develop and fund disaster preparation. This proposes that a reinforcing spiral could emerge for this set of issues, where increasing population comes together with sea-level rise and a stressed economy to further damage already weak buildings, undermine efforts to improve disaster preparedness and build coastal armaments; and these, in turn, further erode the economy while sea-level rise marches on. The informal coping systems are expected to help reduce vulnerabilities to some degree for both sets of issues. Mumbai’s overall vulnerability appears to be high. While the city is relatively wealthy compared to the rest of India, and it does have an elaborate disaster management plan in
On Thursday, September 7th, Mexico was hit with an 8.1 magnitude earthquake and experienced rough weather from Hurricane Katia. The Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto said it was the strongest earthquake to hit Mexico in 100 years. Over 60 people were killed, and around 50 million people felt it. Some of the most tremendous earthquakes are capable of producing tsunamis, which is exactly what happened. The earthquake led to a tsunami with waves that up to a meter/3 feet high that lasted more than 6 hours. The general manage of the Mexican Direct Relief said that it is difficult to bring relief resources and supplied to the people who were hit the hardest because of Hurricane Katia.
To many Haitian, the issue of electricity remains a serious problem for decades. According to World Bank, solely 25 per cent of the population in Haiti has energy supply (World Bank 2012). Further, the Organization states that” People often have to use candle because of poor energy supply”. The public entity responsible for distributing electricity in Haiti is Called EDH (Electricity of Haiti), operating under the Ministry of public transport and communication (MTPTC). The latter entity’s main objective is design, define and implement the policy of the Executive Power in the areas Public Works, Transport, Communications, drinking water, energy and in all other areas defined by the law (MTPTC 2007). However, many have agreed that this entity has failed to its mission. According to (Dorzilme.L, 2004), “The distribution of the electricity in the Haitian Capital has dropped from 24 hours before 1986 to 15 to 18 hours in 1990 to 1994, then to 7 to 13 hours of energy from 2007 to 2013. Actually the public demonstrations in Cayes (Southside of Haiti) to condemn the poor level
Earthquakes belong to the class of most disastrous natural hazards. They result in unexpected and tremendous earth movements. These movements results from dissemination of an enormous amount of intense energy in form of seismic waves which are detected by use of seismograms. The impact of earthquakes leaves behind several landmarks including: destruction of property, extensive disruption of services like sewer and water lines, loss of life, and causes instability in both economic and social components of the affected nation (Webcache 2).
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Providing relief for costal disaster has always been a problem. Getting the money to pay for the property damage especially in developing nations is hard. However for developing nations it can undo years of progress. This is an even more frighting thing since natural desasters are becoming more frequent in southern Mediterranean and middle east. There was an increase from three a year in 1980 to more than 13 in 2006. The increase is not likely to stop soon and developing nations will not be able to compete with nature.