The tectonic factors that create the Caribbean islands and Haiti are also what causes them to be at risk. Haiti is at the intersection of the caribbean plate and the North American plate with a sinistral (left lateral) strike slip fault to the west and a convergent subduction boundary to the East. Stresses from this oblique convergence will cause earthquakes along the near surface due to the strike slip fault and deeper plutonic earthquakes due to the subduction zone.
Why is there a large amount of damage from earthquakes in Haiti?
Their buildings aren't made of strong enough materials to withstand it. They also don't have the funds to properly build them.
because its on a fault line
Previous earthquake occurrences, nearness to active volcanoes, and location in the area where crustal [or lithospheric or tectonic] plates meet make a place more vulnerable to earthquakes.
If it is near the Ring of Fire (or Pacific Ring of Fire) it will be vulnerable to many earthquakes.
They don't have any.
yes
because its on a fault line
It is expected to have earthquakes because a plate is under haiti
Previous earthquake occurrences, nearness to active volcanoes, and location in the area where crustal [or lithospheric or tectonic] plates meet make a place more vulnerable to earthquakes.
Haiti has 2 major exports- poverty and earthquakes
haiti has had 1 earth quke
If it is near the Ring of Fire (or Pacific Ring of Fire) it will be vulnerable to many earthquakes.
earthquakes
earthquakes
because there on the equater
22
not sure
There was many earthquakes in Haiti in the past few days one 7.0 (big earthquake) and a 6.1 (not as well known)