Blog Entry #2

Title: “What caused the devastating Haiti Earthquake?”

Summary:

The Caribbean and North American that run through Haiti moved about 20mm. This situation was caused from a lot of damage coming from the two plates. This impact was super close, the force was more stronger than it would be if it was further away from the Earth surface. A different way why the earthquake was so unbelievable is because it lasted about 1 minute to 35 seconds. This isn’t good because a lot of Haiti’s buildings, homes and food markets weren’t built nor designed to uphold an earthquake.

Reflection:

When I heard about the Haiti Earthquake I was sad. I was really focus on the children I was shocked when I seen the little baby's being found under the big buildings. I really wanted to help them out and donate a lot of money for the children’s to get food so they will not starve. It was really crazy how many people died in Haiti and how many people have got found.

Evidence:

“The shaking started on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 4:53 p.m. ET in the Haiti region, just 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince.”

“The threat is not over.”So far we have monitored over 40 aftershocks ranging from 4.5 all the way up to 5.9," Bedwell said. About 14 of those aftershocks were magnitude 5.0 or larger. And they expect more in the coming weeks”

“All of these effects get magnified when the infrastructure is shoddy and not built to withstand shaking.”Unfortunately, Haiti has a rather poor economy and not a wonderful building style for earthquake resistance, so we would expect that we would see quite severe and widespread damage from this earthquake," Michael Blanpeid, associate coordinator for theUSGS Earthquake Hazards Program, said in a podcast released today.”

Questions:

What does magnitude mean?
Where are these two plates located, and what do they look like?
Can or will it happen again?
Has this happened before?
What was response of earthquake to Haiti?
What were the expenses of damage?
Where was the core of the earthquake?

Resources:

I found all my of my information and quotes from the following:

“What caused the devastating Haiti earthquake?” MsnBc 13 Jan. 2010. Live Science. 27. Jan. 2010 .