The Earthquake In Haiti

Before the storm happened, Haiti was already destroyed from other natural disasters because of where it is placed on the Earth, it is between where the North American plate and Caribbean plate meet. Haiti was a third world country and still is today. Haiti was very unfortunate starting in the year of 2010, because it was shook by an earthquake, attacked with a tsunami, and kicked in the neck by a hurricane. All jokes aside, these were horrible incidents that happened to the small country of Haiti. The earthquake that shook Haiti happened on January 12, it had a magnitude of 7.0, killed about 230,000 people and injured about 300,000 people. It lasted about 35 seconds, it was one of the strongest temblor to hit Haiti in more than 200 years. What caused the earthquake to happen was that the North American and Caribbean plates moved past each other in an east-west direction causing it to release a lot of built up energy over the years. Even though it wasn’t the biggest earthquake to happen in that area, it had a much higher amount of fatalities because it hit a very populated region. The reason it was so devastating because of how many people were affected by it, the country has a very poor economy and their buildings are not built for earthquake resistance, so of course
But this was very unusually for a tsunami to happen after an earthquake that only had a magnitude of 7.0 because they usually need to be much bigger to create killer waves. A team of scientists discovered that the tsunami had two types of waves, tectonic and landslide-generated tsunamis, the only one that caused fatalities was the landslide tsunami, killed a man and two boys. Haiti didn’t have any warnings or education for tsunamis at the time, they since then have been teaching the public what to do during tsunamis and