Personal Experience at Haiti Earthquake

Personal Experience at Haiti Earthquake

Introduction

The 2010 Haiti earthquake was registered on January 12 of 2010 at 16:53:09 local time (21:53:09 UTC) with epicenter at 15 km from Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake would have had a magnitude of 7.0 degrees and would have generated at a depth of 10 kilometers. It has also recorded a series of aftershocks, the strongest being the 5.9, 5.5 and 5.1 degrees. In this devastating tragedy, many military forces were deployed in the area to provide the helping services and relieve the pains and problems to the victims of it. Likewise, I have been deployed too and this essay is the personal experience I have faced there.

Discussions

History of mission

The Haiti earthquake shocked the world, but only affected the people of this beautiful country located in the Caribbean, destroying all buildings in Port-au-Prince, leaving homeless more than 3 million Haitians and causing widespread fear and chaos in the population. Any one could imagine that an earthquake measuring 7.3 degrees on the Richter scale is just devastating, but seeing the images of what happened is just chilling, where the missing and the dead are the shocking mystery of this equation, which until now only leaves heartache in the world.

So far we know that the most affected city was Port au Prince, the capital, he had to see how the buildings fell like towers made of letters is involved and fell with people inside, making it even more difficult to quantify the death toll.

The Presidential Palace was severely affected, the second floor collapsing onto the first. The Parliament building, the office of the United Nations and the National Cathedral were also damaged. The new headquarters of the Government of Haiti will be built in the Croix-des-Bouquets about 20 miles from Port au Prince.

Overview

The natural disaster that struck Haitians not only hard enough to knock down buildings and houses which had been built, but also removed the security and self-esteem of people. Those who survived were left with nothing, nothing at all. With no power and feel that now is even more defenseless against any emergency that fear does not take over the day-to-day in all. Another source of confidence that has been hit is the solid structure of the Government Palace, which also suffered the endless fury of an earthquake that no one expected and no one could be prepared.

It's really sad to see how, despite the efforts of the international volunteer has come to Haiti, and nothing can be done against the many bodies of people are under the rubble, which provokes a feeling of despair and abandonment against a uncontrollable circumstances, subject to know that, in addition, Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas, with a population of nine million people in an area that does not have more than 27.750 square miles.

Haiti is completely disabled, can't continue to function as a country as it was until a few days ago, the schools ...