Social Vulnerability In Haiti

Social vulnerability is when groups in society are at risk because of some of there characteristics. When disasters happen their groups are at risk because they are part of a certain group even though this shouldn’t make them any more vulnerable then anybody else. Different characteristics are class, race, and gender. Some different disasters that happened were the earthquake in Haiti, the Hurricane in New Orleans, and the flood in the Dakotas. The different disasters have different groups that were socially vulnerable. On January 12th of 2010 there was a massive earthquake that accrued in Haiti. The earthquake didn’t just last for that one day on the 12th of January there where still 52 aftershocks within 12 days after the earthquake occurred. Haiti has had other earthquakes in the past like …show more content…
There were 5,000 people that died due to this earthquake. There where also two more earth quakes that occurred in Haiti. The earthquake that occurred on January 25th, 1953 and March 2nd, 1994. The January 25th earthquake had a magnitude of 5.7 and killed 2 people. The earth quake of march 2nd had a magnitude of 5.4 and killed 4 people. This means that Haiti is in an area that has a high chance for earthquakes to happen. A quote by Munro (2015) says that “Slum-dwellers as ‘pioneer settlers of swamps, floodplains, volcano slopes, unstable hillsides, rubbish mountains, chemical dumps, railroad sidings, and desert fringes’, and of how such areas are ‘poverty’s niche in the ecology of the city, and very poor people have little choice but to live with disaster.” The quote shows the conditions of Haiti and how these people are living in dangerous circumstances. So when there is earthquakes or other disasters it makes the area even more dangerous and puts the poor people at more of a risk. In 2010 it made the conditions worse in Haiti. The earthquake in