The impacts from this event are expected to be significant, although not as devastating as the earthquake, which directly affected the capital, explained KCC. KCC said widespread damage to residences and commercial buildings during earthquakes can be attributable to the lack of earthquake-resistant design. In many cases, the structural types, member dimensions, and detailing practices are inadequate to resist strong ground motions.
These vulnerabilities are exacerbated by poor construction practices. In Haiti, much construction is unregulated and performed by the building owners themselves, which presents serious challenges in introducing and enforcing standards and codes and makes the building inventory in Haiti among the most seismically vulnerable in the world.
Given the high vulnerability of buildings and strong ground motions near the rupture, widespread damage and casualties have occurred in areas of western Haiti as a result of the Aug. He points to projects like the Village Lumane Casimir, with 1, units. Only about half of the units are built, due to a lack of funds. Instead of waiting for the government, people have been building their homes over time. More than one million people were displaced by the earthquake.
In Canaan, about two hours from the capital, tents were set up to temporarily house displaced residents. But today, some people still live in the very tents that were put up 10 years ago. Others have built homes out of whatever they could find; wood and tin homes cover the mountains.
A number of residents have built their homes out of cement blocks. People in Canaan have built a makeshift community with homes out of various materials, schools for those who can afford it, churches and grocery stores. He says when you fly into or out of Haiti at night, you can see all of the lights emanating from homes, snake roads and lack of organization. Katz says when it comes to Haiti, people often try to find a single villain. Bill and Hillary Clinton are often singled out.
He says inequality, much more than the earthquake, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. At his office, his windows are covered in wood to fend off rocks and Molotov cocktails. He says a lot of things other countries take for granted, Haiti cannot. Everything from water to electricity to roads are systems people have to build themselves, and in challenging circumstances.
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For a country like Haiti, which is exposed to multiple natural disaster risks, it is imperative for us to adopt preventive measures to reduce vulnerability to shocks, while improving disaster preparedness and response. The second ingredient is the population exposed to these different shaking levels. You can just take a population grid and calculate the population exposed for all of the different shaking intensity levels. The final question is the impact of that. In China or Haiti, you have very vulnerable buildings.
For the same shaking level, you can get many times more fatalities than you would in, say, California or New Zealand or Japan, where you have better building codes. Why is there so much uncertainty? Haiti has a seismic network where it can locate earthquakes. They have to be special instruments called strong motion instruments. There are probably six or seven in Haiti, and we only have the data from two of them.
An additional source of uncertainty in our calculations is trying to figure out [the location and shape of] the fault. It also has dependencies on the data and how good the data are and how complicated the earthquake was. Sometimes those things take months to really iron out. But we always do our best to do it within the first few hours and days. The estimates range from , to , But once you get into these really big losses, such as in Haiti, the truth is uncertain.
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