2010 Haiti Earthquake

Decent Essays
On January 12, 2010, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 killed over 220,000 people and over 300,000 injured. The earthquake left 1.5 million people homeless and “immense humanitarian crisis.”
When a 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, people lost family members, their homes, their way of earning income, and so much more. Americans responded by donating generously to help save lives. Working side by side with many organizations such as the red cross etc , they provided water and food and medical care and rubble removal, and emergency shelter to people in need.
They provided basic everyday items such as soap and water purification tablets. We helped build houses and gave millions of peoples their homes back. Even though the memories and

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Haiti Chapter Summary

    • 1013 Words
    • 5 Pages

    American soldiers were sent to reinstate the country’s democratically elected government, and to strip away power from the military junta that had deposed it and ruled for 3 years (pg.3). Politics can affect the health of Haiti. In chapter 1, the hospital refused to treat sick prisoners. Nine soldiers are clearly not even to try to govern 150,000 people in Haiti. The health of the people will not improve with so little of help.…

    • 1013 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Haiti After the Earthquake, by Dr. Paul Farmer, is about the author’s experience in Haiti after the earthquake of 2010. The first eight chapters are written from Dr. Paul Farmer’s perspective and the second part of the book is written from other people’s perspective and how they dealt with the damage of the earthquake. The Haiti earthquake devastated the already struggling country. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and over half of the population lives on $1 dollar a day.…

    • 1216 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the book The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz we learn that all help is not helpful, but we can change that. In 2010 an earthquake hit Haiti, being one of the worse things to happen to this already poor country. This book provides us with a lot of information about the before and after of the Haiti earthquake. Help was provided to help rebuild, but some solutions worked and some didn’t. Instead of focusing on what will be noticed by the outside world, Haiti needed what would help them rebuild as a country.…

    • 893 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    9/11 In America

    • 193 Words
    • 1 Pages

    There are several ways Americans have helped each other during hard times. One of those times were when 9/11 happened. Another time was when Hurricane Katrina occurred. In 9/11, people helped each other by calling firefighters, by trying hard to get everyone out of the buildings. It was a very disastrous time for America, and it was very generous for everyone to help out, and we still thank those people today.…

    • 193 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Pompeii

    • 489 Words
    • 2 Pages

    On January 12, 2010 an earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude struck the small Caribbean nation of Haiti. The earthquake was the most powerful to have…

    • 489 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Haiti is always getting hit and is always getting destroyed and we haven'ta done anything to help prevent it from happening again. Another way, humanity is expressed in this article is, the comparison of which Pitts suggests “We are hamstrung by our own limitations, so we can only do what we always do.” Meaning that we are incapable because of all our limitations so all we can do is pray and help. But all we do is watch the people around the would suffer from all the tragedies, Pitts says, "To write relief checks, donate blood. volunteer material and time and to fear, even in the doing, that these gestures are small against the need, inconsequential against the ache of a people whose turn never to end.…

    • 570 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What does it mean to be an American? That is the question that many people ask, but do not know the real answer. Everyone will have their own opinion on what it means to be a true American. Some may say pride, some may say fearlessness, some may say determination, but to me the most important word that I could use to describe what it means to be an American is a family. We work so hard together as a nation to keep America going strong and become unstoppable.…

    • 646 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Resilience In Haiti

    • 386 Words
    • 2 Pages

    To some people the years 1994,1998,2008 and 2010 are just years. But to the people of Haiti, these years are the years that changed their lives drastically. Through the loss of loved ones, homes and so much more. The Haitian people display courage and resilience because they have still found ways to come back despite the odds.…

    • 386 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Katrina Tantrum Essay

    • 903 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Katrina’s Tantrum Introduction Hurricane Katrina, one of the world’s strongest hurricane, tore through the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina destroyed everything through its path. Towns were destroyed. People lost their homes, families, and dignity.…

    • 903 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Haiti Research Paper

    • 778 Words
    • 4 Pages

    In America we constantly hear about other countries and Haiti is one of them especially after the Earthquake that kills and injured thousands of people. Since then Haiti has been doing its best to rebuild up the country. Let the adventures began to discover Haiti’s culture, background history, and uncontrollable damage that has been done.…

    • 778 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Just earlier last month Haiti was still recovering from a massive earthquake and was then hit with something terrible. It devastated the country, caused tons of flooding and killed hundreds. Hurricane Matthew was a horrible disaster and killed thousands people all over the world. It has forced Haitians to bathe in and drink contaminated water, and has left many homeless and disease ridden. There are bodies scattered all throughout Haiti, lifeless, next to hundreds of perished buildings and houses.…

    • 199 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Another disaster that the United States suffered was on 9-11. This caused so much harm to so many people, and took so many lives. This was a shock to the United States, we all suffered from this horrible disaster, and it still affects so many lives today. This chapter was something interesting to read over, especially with everything that has been going on lately. Within the last six months, our nation has suffered natural disasters and we have suffered from different mobs around our nation from the recent election.…

    • 628 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Earthquake In Haiti

    • 410 Words
    • 2 Pages

    In 2010, a seven point zero magnitude earthquake hit this small country in the Caribbean. In Haiti, this was a devastating natural disaster that has effected the country even to this day. Ever since the earthquake the economic infrastructure of the country has been severely struggling (Massive Earthquake Hits Haiti, n.d.). The struggles of this country have been going on for decades even before the earthquake, but the challenges that the people face have all been the same. Haiti can be found in the Caribbean sharing boarders with only one country, the Dominican Republic (Where is Haiti?, 2015).…

    • 410 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The years of 1918 were lively. Theatres became popular hangouts, the economy was booming from war productions, factory jobs grew exponentially, and health and sanitation education started playing important roles in people’s lives for the first time in recent history. No one could have predicted what would follow, nor how serious it became or how the society of the decade would send the nation downhill. The Spanish Influenza broke out in the United States, causing the worst epidemic the country has ever known, even to this day. This disease was known to be so deadly for having “...killed more people in 24 hours than AIDS had in 24 years, and more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century” (Billings).…

    • 1178 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    On planet earth, calamities that have devastating effects have occurred over the years with some natural being and others happening as a result of human interference. Disasters are always undesirable in any part of the world and bring about significant losses in life and property. Among the most severe calamities in the world since the old ages, earthquakes stand out as one of the most severe disasters. Earthquakes are calamities that cause a massive loss of life and property any time they occur. They are caused by diverse circumstances, and they have numerous effects on the people living in the area that they occur.…

    • 836 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays