What is the issue? The Haiti Earthquake Learning Objective: To analyse the Haiti earthquake.

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What is the issue? The Haiti Earthquake Learning Objective: To analyse the Haiti earthquake

Learning outcomes: All pupils will able to give basic facts about the Haiti earthquake Most pupils will be a able to describe some impacts and responses to the earthquake Some pupils will be able to evaluate the scale of the disaster and the problems of the responses.

What is the difference between the Richter scale and Mercalli scale?

Earthquake Details: Tuesday, January 12th, pm Magnitude 7.0

Caribbean Plate North American Plate The epicentre of the earthquake was 25km west of the capital Port Au Prince

What was Haiti like before the earthquake?

Haiti is the poorest country in western hemisphere. It ranked 149 th out of 182 countries on Human development Index Only 40% of the population have access to basic health care compared to England's 100%. 50% of the people are unemployed. Politically unstable $GDP per capita 697

Video clips Short term effects photos: Short term effects bbc news report: Short term effects video footage: Immediate responses: Immediate responses: Long term responses: bogged-down-by-inefficient-bureaucracies_news#.UOQsi-R1GSohttp:// bogged-down-by-inefficient-bureaucracies_news#.UOQsi-R1GSo