The Scale And Economic Impact Of The Haiti Disaster

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Although more powerful than the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, which killed around a quarter of a million people and caused US$8 billion in economic damages, the epicenter of the 2021

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It breached levees protecting the city, leaving 80% underwater. The storm and subsequent flooding killed over 1,700 people and displaced hundreds of thousands of residents. Repairing the broken levees and pumping out the

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Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti’s economic

Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing, using Haiti’s economic and demographic data. The base estimate is US$8.lbn, but for several

data reveals the sheer scale – on so many levels – of Haiti’s disaster and encourages us to investigate a little deeper. Earthquakes are highly energetic events that result from colliding

nation’s administrative and economic infrastructure was lost, and 80% of the schools and more than 50% of the hospitals were destroyed or damaged (GOH 2010). More than 180

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were mega-disasters with 230,000 dying in the Haiti disaster and just 12,000 dying in the Tohuku disaster despite it being a more serious and powerful event. This difference in deaths was due

Based on this analysis, damages for the 2021 earthquake in Haiti are estimated to reach US$1.6 billion (9.6 percent of GDP) for a scenario with an impact of 2,500 dead or missing. We also

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Social Impacts Economic Impacts 3 million people in total affected. Over 220,000 deaths caused by the collapsing buildings, a small tsunami and the cholera epidemic in the proceeding weeks.

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Some scholars have compared the damage caused by the 2010 Chilean earthquake to the damage caused by the 2010 Haitian earthquake. 147 The Haitian

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