Before the earthquake‚ Haiti was already a country with high prevalence of infant mortality‚ poor nutrition‚ and diseases such as HIV and Turberclosis. In Haiti ‚“An estimated 87 of every 1‚000 children born die by the age of 5 years‚ and >25% of surviving children experience chronic undernutrition or stunted growth. Maternal mortality rate is 630 per 100‚000 live births.” (SITE) The life expectancy in Haiti is 61 years. Due to low vaccination rates‚ Haitians are at risk of spreading vaccine preventable
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on the agency scale as a grade 7 accident‚ which was in the same grade as Chernobyl accident‚ but a few number on the agency’s scale (After Fukushima: Enough Is Enough‚ n.d.). The shaking of the earth in the east of Japan on 11 March 2011. This earthquake caused a powerful tsunami that reached the height of approximately 15 meters (The Situation at Fukushima‚ n.d.). Furthermore‚ the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants experienced a lot of destruction caused by a tsunami that hit the reactors in
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com/2012/10/04/world/asia/china-landslide-school/index.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/10/05/china-landslide.html The southwest part of China is surrounded by hills and mountains. The area is also surrounded by many plate boundaries so it is a common place for many earthquakes and landslides to occur. The area is often in long periods of droughts followed by heavy showers. The area is covered with basin folds and thrust faults. There are also a lot of sedimentary rocks in the area. On August 21‚ 2012 A landslide
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Chile would be a great place to live and work because of the living conditions and the opportunities in the country for doing business. Chile scored higher than 0.8 on the Human Development Index classifying them as a country with high human development. The HDI measures the quality of human life based on life expectancy‚ educational attainment‚ and whether average incomes are sufficient to meet the basic needs of life. All of the qualities measured in the HDI are great incentives to work and live
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Chiles have been a part of the human diet in the Americas; chiles being one of the earliest plants to be cultivated and domesticated in the New World. Archaeological evidence suggests that chiles were used as a food ingredient at least 8‚000 years ago - around 6200 BC. Traces of chiles dating from this time have been found in burial in Peru: they were obviously seen as important enough to be carried into them hereafter! Chile peppers are thought to have been domesticated at least five times by prehistoric
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These reforms saw Chile rise from a depressed economy to a great‚ top rank in the South American economy. One of the reforms which led to improvement of Chile economy was the opening of the Chile market to the foreign trade. Chile is a small country which is found away from the business center or where most businesses are carried out‚ due to these there was need to create a market where foreign traders were able to access the market increasing export and imports. By 1974 major changes were made on
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Chile & Patagonia - TravelStore Destination Page Build Out FROM HIGH FASHION TO ICONIC OUTDOOR ADVENTURES. The beauty of the sprawling Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia‚ the European flavor of the Lakes District‚ the Chilean High Andes‚ and touring the country’s wine regions are only a small sampling of what this South American nation you. Join wine connoisseurs who flock to taste some of the best‚ freshest‚ and finest organic whites made with Loca Blanca grapes from Chile. Chile will
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ChileFrom 1973 - 1977‚ there was genocide in Chile. The targets were people who believed in the communist government system. The start of it all began on September 11th‚ 1973 when Chilean commander in chief‚ Augusto Pinochet Ugarte commanded the Chilean army and police force to overthrow the current president Salvador Allende. The main reason for the overthrow was because of Allende’s economic plan. With it‚ inflation was rising 1% every day. The only reason the coup was successful at overthrowing
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faults lead to be a lot more destruction. Earthquakes are a trembling or shaking of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy stored in rocks beneath earths surface. Earthquakes appear all over the planet‚ and there are many different sizes. Some earthquakes destroy entire cities while others only shake the ground for a moment. Faults are one of the causes of earthquakes‚ which I will tell about soon as well as the hazards and benefits they give. Earthquakes can be caused in many ways‚ some even
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Figure 5.19 The mortar in unreinforced masonry walls such as these in Iran‚1990(A) can easily fail during an earthquake. Oftentimes the entire structure crumbles‚ leaving a pile of rubble in which survive. Shown in(B) is one of the many masonry homes to collapse during the 1988 Armenia earthquake (M6.9)‚ claiming nearly 25‚000 lives. The failure is called soft-story collapse. Soft-story collapse is a common problem in commercial building where the first floor has considerable open space for
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