Haiti Natural Disasters

https://apnews.com/article/5a988e49a5bc4e9b89e7be8711abadb8

Natural disasters have been plaguing Haiti for countless years, and have been an ongoing part of the struggle for human rights movement, as is surprisingly common worldwide (1). And Haiti has had no shortage of those. Since 2000, it has been hit by several hurricanes and devastating earthquakes, such as the 2010 Earthquake and Hurricane Georges in 1998. These catastrophes, when combined with a fairly ineffectual government, led to the rise of several prominent gangs in the city, as discussed in the gangs section of this website as well.

The extreme weather events have worsened the humanitarian situation and complicated the ability of the country to recover and develop.

Severity of Natural disasters in Haiti

January 2010 Earthquake (Magnitude 7.0): Hit Port-au-Prince, causing Catastrophic damage and 316,000 deaths (3)
Hurricane Matthew: 2016, Made Landfall as a Category 4, destroyed over 200,000 Homes
August 2021 Earthquake - Magnitude 7.2 - Catastrophic damage with 2,2,48 deaths and more than one million rendered homeless (3)