Earthquake Environmental Issues

Environmental issues are current problems that we people are encountering nowadays due to the fact that the climate is changing at high speeds over the years. Earthquakes are considered to be a release of energy, which takes place in the Earth’s crust. These environmental issues affect several parts of the world; this paper will be centred on the earthquake that occurred in Haiti in 2010, and the earthquake and consequent tsunami which took place in Japan in 2011. Undoubtedly, both nations were equally affected by the earthquakes; however, their recuperation from this disaster was extremely different. In this paper, my main aim is to demonstrate why these two nations, Haiti and Japan, have recovered in a completely different way despite having

Haiti is an impoverished country which is also the third hungriest nation in the world. On the 12th Jan, 2010, a massive earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hit the country, leaving an unknown death toll, which is thought to be above 200.000 people. On top of the poverty that Haiti was suffering, she had weak infrastructures which collapsed due to the previous mentioned environmental disaster.
On the other hand, the other nation which underwent the same disaster was Japan. Japan is an island in East Asia, and its location lies in the Pacific Ocean. On the 11th March, 2011, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake developed in the country, a phenomena that unleashed a tsunami with waves up to 39 metres. In this environmental disaster, the estimated death toll is 15884 people, and it is probed that most of them died by drowning.
In spite of suffering the damages of the earthquake, both nations faced major problems after the disaster. Haiti experienced lack of clean water and the outbreak of cholera in October of the same year, which made recuperation even harder. Meanwhile, Japan was also affected by the failure of the cooling system in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power, which leaked radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, and also spread radiation among the inhabitants of the near

There are plans to build schools and hospitals less prone to collapse, and most important of all, attention to public health is being paid: the health services have expanded and there have been better vaccinations campaigns.
Moreover, the International Action Organization is working on a project to bring clean water to Haiti, because they claim that: “Most water sources are contaminated with human waste because of the absence of a sewage sanitation system. Still, that dirty water is often used for cooking and drinking – exposing men, women, and children to the germs that cause cholera, typhoid, hepatitis, chronic diarrhoea, and other waterborne diseases are carried in water.” What is more, the International Action Organization is extremely concerned about clean water in Haiti because “Where There Is No Water, There Is No Life”
The most important step that Haiti is considering these days is informing people in order to prepare them for future environmental disasters. When the earthquake happened in 2010, not all the people knew how to act and what to do when a disaster of that magnitude occurred.
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