Haiti Earthquake
•Distribution of basic learning materials has benefited 952,122 students
•1000s of earthquake-affected families were provided with agricultural assistance during the past three cropping seasons, this included 4,000 tons of crop seeds, 2,378 million roots and tubers, 179,000 banana plants, 16.5 tons of vegetable seeds, 239,000 hand tools, 24,000 tons of fertilizer and 170 tons of compost
•As of June 2011, 1.2 million people had benefited from water provision receiving more than 4,200 cubic metres of water daily
•6,000+ latrines and 2,800 showers are functioning in displacement sites, approximately 1 million households have received water chlorination products and 415,000 have received soap
•Between February and November 2010 240,000 people were employed through Cash/Food-for-Work schemes through 231 projects
•A million children receive daily meals through the National School Feeding Programme
•342,550 residences structurally assessed; over half structurally sound
•Nearly 500,000 people have been provided with improved temporary shelter.
•890,000 people given access to safe toilets
•720,000 people given clean water
•187,000 medical consultations
•100,000+ people provided with emergency shelter
•236 construction teams trained
•39 schools up and running within six months
GENERAL RESPONSE AND RECOVERY IN LAST 18 MONTHS •Number of new cholera cases registered per month dropped from 84,391 in November 2010 to 13,419 in October 2011
•Training has been provided for 13,149 teachers and 7,842 teaching staff
•Unrelated to the earthquake but causing aid response challenges was the outbreak of cholera in October 2010. By July 2011 5,899 had died as a result of the outbreak, and 216,000 were infected.
DEC RELIEF AND RECONSTRUCTION HEADLINE ACHIEVEMENTS •The DEC Appeal has now raised £107m – two-thirds directly and one-third through its member agencies – which will be spent over three years
•DEC agencies and their partners have nearly £380m to spend in total from all sources
•1.8million people reached by DEC funded aid
HAITI EARTHQUAKE
BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE •Haiti was 145th of 169 countries in the UN Human Development Index, which is the lowest in the Western Hemisphere.
•More than 70% of people in Haiti were living on less than $US2 per day
•86% of people in Port au Prince were living in slum conditions - mostly tightly-packed, poorly-built, concrete buildings.
•80% of education in Haiti was provided in often poor-quality private schools, the state system generally provided better education but provided far too few places
•Half of people in Port-au-Prince had no access to latrines and only one-third has access to tap water
CAUSE:
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti at 4:53 p.m. Tuesday, displacing and possibly killing thousands of people, was the most violent quake the country had experienced in more than a century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake occurred along the fault line that separates the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates. It is a strike-slip fault line, and it runs east to west through Haiti, the government agency said.
When the quake hit, the massive plates, located about 10 miles southwest of the densely populated capital, Port-au-Prince, moved horizontally, causing the pieces of rock to move past each other.
"The North American and Caribbean tectonic plates are sheering the island, crushing it, grinding it and, as that occurs, earthquakes pop off," Michael Blanpeid, associate coordinator for the Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program, said in a podcast on the agency's Web site Tuesday.
It was a relatively shallow earthquake, only 6 miles below the surface of the earth.
IMPACT OF THE 12 JANUARY EARTHQUAKE •7.0 Magnitude Quake struck near Port au Prince
•3,500,000 people were affected by the quake
•220,000 people estimated to have died
•300,000+ people were injured
•Over 188,383 houses were badly damaged and 105,000 were destroyed by the earthquake (293,383 in total), 1.5m people became homeless
•After the quake there were 19 million cubic metres of rubble and debris in Port au Prince – enough to fill a line of shipping containers stretching end to end from London to Beirut.
•4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed
•25% of civil servants in Port au Prince died
•60% of Government and administrative buildings, 80% of schools in Port-au-Prince and 60% of schools in the South and West Departments were destroyed or damaged
•Over 600,000 people left their home area in Port-au-Prince and mostly stayed with host families
•At its peak, one and a half million people were living in camps including over 100,000 at critical risk from storms and flooding
•1000s of earthquake-affected families were provided with agricultural assistance during the past three cropping seasons, this included 4,000 tons of crop seeds, 2,378 million roots and tubers, 179,000 banana plants, 16.5 tons of vegetable seeds, 239,000 hand tools, 24,000 tons of fertilizer and 170 tons of compost
•As of June 2011, 1.2 million people had benefited from water provision receiving more than 4,200 cubic metres of water daily
•6,000+ latrines and 2,800 showers are functioning in displacement sites, approximately 1 million households have received water chlorination products and 415,000 have received soap
•Between February and November 2010 240,000 people were employed through Cash/Food-for-Work schemes through 231 projects
•A million children receive daily meals through the National School Feeding Programme
•342,550 residences structurally assessed; over half structurally sound
•Nearly 500,000 people have been provided with improved temporary shelter.
•890,000 people given access to safe toilets
•720,000 people given clean water
•187,000 medical consultations
•100,000+ people provided with emergency shelter
•236 construction teams trained
•39 schools up and running within six months
GENERAL RESPONSE AND RECOVERY IN LAST 18 MONTHS •Number of new cholera cases registered per month dropped from 84,391 in November 2010 to 13,419 in October 2011
•Training has been provided for 13,149 teachers and 7,842 teaching staff
•Unrelated to the earthquake but causing aid response challenges was the outbreak of cholera in October 2010. By July 2011 5,899 had died as a result of the outbreak, and 216,000 were infected.
DEC RELIEF AND RECONSTRUCTION HEADLINE ACHIEVEMENTS •The DEC Appeal has now raised £107m – two-thirds directly and one-third through its member agencies – which will be spent over three years
•DEC agencies and their partners have nearly £380m to spend in total from all sources
•1.8million people reached by DEC funded aid
HAITI EARTHQUAKE
BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE •Haiti was 145th of 169 countries in the UN Human Development Index, which is the lowest in the Western Hemisphere.
•More than 70% of people in Haiti were living on less than $US2 per day
•86% of people in Port au Prince were living in slum conditions - mostly tightly-packed, poorly-built, concrete buildings.
•80% of education in Haiti was provided in often poor-quality private schools, the state system generally provided better education but provided far too few places
•Half of people in Port-au-Prince had no access to latrines and only one-third has access to tap water
CAUSE:
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti at 4:53 p.m. Tuesday, displacing and possibly killing thousands of people, was the most violent quake the country had experienced in more than a century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake occurred along the fault line that separates the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates. It is a strike-slip fault line, and it runs east to west through Haiti, the government agency said.
When the quake hit, the massive plates, located about 10 miles southwest of the densely populated capital, Port-au-Prince, moved horizontally, causing the pieces of rock to move past each other.
"The North American and Caribbean tectonic plates are sheering the island, crushing it, grinding it and, as that occurs, earthquakes pop off," Michael Blanpeid, associate coordinator for the Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program, said in a podcast on the agency's Web site Tuesday.
It was a relatively shallow earthquake, only 6 miles below the surface of the earth.
IMPACT OF THE 12 JANUARY EARTHQUAKE •7.0 Magnitude Quake struck near Port au Prince
•3,500,000 people were affected by the quake
•220,000 people estimated to have died
•300,000+ people were injured
•Over 188,383 houses were badly damaged and 105,000 were destroyed by the earthquake (293,383 in total), 1.5m people became homeless
•After the quake there were 19 million cubic metres of rubble and debris in Port au Prince – enough to fill a line of shipping containers stretching end to end from London to Beirut.
•4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed
•25% of civil servants in Port au Prince died
•60% of Government and administrative buildings, 80% of schools in Port-au-Prince and 60% of schools in the South and West Departments were destroyed or damaged
•Over 600,000 people left their home area in Port-au-Prince and mostly stayed with host families
•At its peak, one and a half million people were living in camps including over 100,000 at critical risk from storms and flooding