Understanding the Haiti Earthquake

Understanding the Haiti Earthquake 30 mi Saint-MarcO Port au- Prince Total Population: 10 Million Petit- Goâve Jacmel 3.5 Million affected 70,000 confirmed dead 200,000 estimated deaths 1 million left homeless January 12, 2010 4:53 PM Magnitude 7.0 1989 Loma Prieta 6.9 Magnitude 3,757 injured 63 casualties TUNION FAT LAFORG 14 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 5.9 19 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 - 600,000 There are 2,000 rescuers from 43 different groups food rations 161 search dogs are being utilized 500,000 gallons of drinking water Over 3,000 people have been treated 250 tons of relief supplies have been shipped in 20,000 121 have been people will die each day that would have been saved by surgery rescued from the rubble There have been The U.S. will allow 100,000 undocumented Haitians to stay legally for 18 months 500 surgeries The country of Senegal will offer free land to all interested Haitians Venezuela has donated 30,000 current U.S. deportation cases will be cancelled 546,000 gallons of gasoline & 446,000 gallons of diesel Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere The European Union has $48 million has been raised already in the U.S. %24 promised $474 million in emergency and long-term aid The U.S. will give $100 million E to the aid effort The U.K. committed to $33 million The American Red Cross has raised $112 million Italy will forgive $56 million it has loaned to Haiti $22 million from texting cell phone users France has promised $14 million to to www.TOPCULTURED.COM Sources: ABC News Australia, Reuters News, United States Geological Survery The Guardian UK, The New York Times, The Miami Herald Understanding the Haiti Earthquake 30 mi Saint-MarcO Port au- Prince Total Population: 10 Million Petit- Goâve Jacmel 3.5 Million affected 70,000 confirmed dead 200,000 estimated deaths 1 million left homeless January 12, 2010 4:53 PM Magnitude 7.0 1989 Loma Prieta 6.9 Magnitude 3,757 injured 63 casualties TUNION FAT LAFORG 14 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 5.9 19 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 - 600,000 There are 2,000 rescuers from 43 different groups food rations 161 search dogs are being utilized 500,000 gallons of drinking water Over 3,000 people have been treated 250 tons of relief supplies have been shipped in 20,000 121 have been people will die each day that would have been saved by surgery rescued from the rubble There have been The U.S. will allow 100,000 undocumented Haitians to stay legally for 18 months 500 surgeries The country of Senegal will offer free land to all interested Haitians Venezuela has donated 30,000 current U.S. deportation cases will be cancelled 546,000 gallons of gasoline & 446,000 gallons of diesel Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere The European Union has $48 million has been raised already in the U.S. %24 promised $474 million in emergency and long-term aid The U.S. will give $100 million E to the aid effort The U.K. committed to $33 million The American Red Cross has raised $112 million Italy will forgive $56 million it has loaned to Haiti $22 million from texting cell phone users France has promised $14 million to to www.TOPCULTURED.COM Sources: ABC News Australia, Reuters News, United States Geological Survery The Guardian UK, The New York Times, The Miami Herald Understanding the Haiti Earthquake 30 mi Saint-MarcO Port au- Prince Total Population: 10 Million Petit- Goâve Jacmel 3.5 Million affected 70,000 confirmed dead 200,000 estimated deaths 1 million left homeless January 12, 2010 4:53 PM Magnitude 7.0 1989 Loma Prieta 6.9 Magnitude 3,757 injured 63 casualties TUNION FAT LAFORG 14 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 5.9 19 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 - 600,000 There are 2,000 rescuers from 43 different groups food rations 161 search dogs are being utilized 500,000 gallons of drinking water Over 3,000 people have been treated 250 tons of relief supplies have been shipped in 20,000 121 have been people will die each day that would have been saved by surgery rescued from the rubble There have been The U.S. will allow 100,000 undocumented Haitians to stay legally for 18 months 500 surgeries The country of Senegal will offer free land to all interested Haitians Venezuela has donated 30,000 current U.S. deportation cases will be cancelled 546,000 gallons of gasoline & 446,000 gallons of diesel Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere The European Union has $48 million has been raised already in the U.S. %24 promised $474 million in emergency and long-term aid The U.S. will give $100 million E to the aid effort The U.K. committed to $33 million The American Red Cross has raised $112 million Italy will forgive $56 million it has loaned to Haiti $22 million from texting cell phone users France has promised $14 million to to www.TOPCULTURED.COM Sources: ABC News Australia, Reuters News, United States Geological Survery The Guardian UK, The New York Times, The Miami Herald Understanding the Haiti Earthquake 30 mi Saint-MarcO Port au- Prince Total Population: 10 Million Petit- Goâve Jacmel 3.5 Million affected 70,000 confirmed dead 200,000 estimated deaths 1 million left homeless January 12, 2010 4:53 PM Magnitude 7.0 1989 Loma Prieta 6.9 Magnitude 3,757 injured 63 casualties TUNION FAT LAFORG 14 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 5.9 19 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 - 600,000 There are 2,000 rescuers from 43 different groups food rations 161 search dogs are being utilized 500,000 gallons of drinking water Over 3,000 people have been treated 250 tons of relief supplies have been shipped in 20,000 121 have been people will die each day that would have been saved by surgery rescued from the rubble There have been The U.S. will allow 100,000 undocumented Haitians to stay legally for 18 months 500 surgeries The country of Senegal will offer free land to all interested Haitians Venezuela has donated 30,000 current U.S. deportation cases will be cancelled 546,000 gallons of gasoline & 446,000 gallons of diesel Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere The European Union has $48 million has been raised already in the U.S. %24 promised $474 million in emergency and long-term aid The U.S. will give $100 million E to the aid effort The U.K. committed to $33 million The American Red Cross has raised $112 million Italy will forgive $56 million it has loaned to Haiti $22 million from texting cell phone users France has promised $14 million to to www.TOPCULTURED.COM Sources: ABC News Australia, Reuters News, United States Geological Survery The Guardian UK, The New York Times, The Miami Herald Understanding the Haiti Earthquake 30 mi Saint-MarcO Port au- Prince Total Population: 10 Million Petit- Goâve Jacmel 3.5 Million affected 70,000 confirmed dead 200,000 estimated deaths 1 million left homeless January 12, 2010 4:53 PM Magnitude 7.0 1989 Loma Prieta 6.9 Magnitude 3,757 injured 63 casualties TUNION FAT LAFORG 14 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 5.9 19 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 - 600,000 There are 2,000 rescuers from 43 different groups food rations 161 search dogs are being utilized 500,000 gallons of drinking water Over 3,000 people have been treated 250 tons of relief supplies have been shipped in 20,000 121 have been people will die each day that would have been saved by surgery rescued from the rubble There have been The U.S. will allow 100,000 undocumented Haitians to stay legally for 18 months 500 surgeries The country of Senegal will offer free land to all interested Haitians Venezuela has donated 30,000 current U.S. deportation cases will be cancelled 546,000 gallons of gasoline & 446,000 gallons of diesel Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere The European Union has $48 million has been raised already in the U.S. %24 promised $474 million in emergency and long-term aid The U.S. will give $100 million E to the aid effort The U.K. committed to $33 million The American Red Cross has raised $112 million Italy will forgive $56 million it has loaned to Haiti $22 million from texting cell phone users France has promised $14 million to to www.TOPCULTURED.COM Sources: ABC News Australia, Reuters News, United States Geological Survery The Guardian UK, The New York Times, The Miami Herald Understanding the Haiti Earthquake 30 mi Saint-MarcO Port au- Prince Total Population: 10 Million Petit- Goâve Jacmel 3.5 Million affected 70,000 confirmed dead 200,000 estimated deaths 1 million left homeless January 12, 2010 4:53 PM Magnitude 7.0 1989 Loma Prieta 6.9 Magnitude 3,757 injured 63 casualties TUNION FAT LAFORG 14 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 5.9 19 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 - 600,000 There are 2,000 rescuers from 43 different groups food rations 161 search dogs are being utilized 500,000 gallons of drinking water Over 3,000 people have been treated 250 tons of relief supplies have been shipped in 20,000 121 have been people will die each day that would have been saved by surgery rescued from the rubble There have been The U.S. will allow 100,000 undocumented Haitians to stay legally for 18 months 500 surgeries The country of Senegal will offer free land to all interested Haitians Venezuela has donated 30,000 current U.S. deportation cases will be cancelled 546,000 gallons of gasoline & 446,000 gallons of diesel Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere The European Union has $48 million has been raised already in the U.S. %24 promised $474 million in emergency and long-term aid The U.S. will give $100 million E to the aid effort The U.K. committed to $33 million The American Red Cross has raised $112 million Italy will forgive $56 million it has loaned to Haiti $22 million from texting cell phone users France has promised $14 million to to www.TOPCULTURED.COM Sources: ABC News Australia, Reuters News, United States Geological Survery The Guardian UK, The New York Times, The Miami Herald Understanding the Haiti Earthquake 30 mi Saint-MarcO Port au- Prince Total Population: 10 Million Petit- Goâve Jacmel 3.5 Million affected 70,000 confirmed dead 200,000 estimated deaths 1 million left homeless January 12, 2010 4:53 PM Magnitude 7.0 1989 Loma Prieta 6.9 Magnitude 3,757 injured 63 casualties TUNION FAT LAFORG 14 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 5.9 19 Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 - 600,000 There are 2,000 rescuers from 43 different groups food rations 161 search dogs are being utilized 500,000 gallons of drinking water Over 3,000 people have been treated 250 tons of relief supplies have been shipped in 20,000 121 have been people will die each day that would have been saved by surgery rescued from the rubble There have been The U.S. will allow 100,000 undocumented Haitians to stay legally for 18 months 500 surgeries The country of Senegal will offer free land to all interested Haitians Venezuela has donated 30,000 current U.S. deportation cases will be cancelled 546,000 gallons of gasoline & 446,000 gallons of diesel Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere The European Union has $48 million has been raised already in the U.S. %24 promised $474 million in emergency and long-term aid The U.S. will give $100 million E to the aid effort The U.K. committed to $33 million The American Red Cross has raised $112 million Italy will forgive $56 million it has loaned to Haiti $22 million from texting cell phone users France has promised $14 million to to www.TOPCULTURED.COM Sources: ABC News Australia, Reuters News, United States Geological Survery The Guardian UK, The New York Times, The Miami Herald