What Made Haiti's Earthquake the Deadliest this Century?
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Date: 2023-12-14
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-mtheblepalopYT
My mom's grandfather lived in Sichuan province, China, and he was killed when the infamous 8. 0 earthquake hit just before I was born. According to my mom's stories, he was really excited to meet me, and his death was just a month before I was born. From what we know, he was eating lunch with his wife and cat next to him, and then the earthquake struck. He had memory issues so he couldn't remember the proper protocol for large earthquakes, and when my great-grandmother jumped under the table and grabbed the cat, he thought the protocol was different. We don't know exactly what he did, but a beam of the ceiling fell on him, crushing him. Their house was nearly destroyed, and my great-grandmother and cat survived, but they died soon after. And because of all the chaos going on in China, I never got to meet them. -
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My mom's grandfather lived in Sichuan province, China, and he was killed when the infamous 8. 0 earthquake hit just before I was born. According to my mom's stories, he was really excited to meet me, and his death was just a month before I was born. From what we know, he was eating lunch with his wife and cat next to him, and then the earthquake struck. He had memory issues so he couldn't remember the proper protocol for large earthquakes, and when my great-grandmother jumped under the table and grabbed the cat, he thought the protocol was different. We don't know exactly what he did, but a beam of the ceiling fell on him, crushing him. Their house was nearly destroyed, and my great-grandmother and cat survived, but they died soon after. And because of all the chaos going on in China, I never got to meet them. -
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-ivantashakov1178
When the quake happened I was on board a flight from San Juan to port au prince when the captain said that we were landing in Santo Domingo because they didn-t know if it was safe to land in port au prince afterwards I volunteered to help in Haiti during That I went to a friend-s house in melenas his house was completely destroyed and I was told several people died there I thought he died I was there for two weeks helping and over 5 years later I ran into him working at a restaurant in Orlando Florida I was so happy to see him he survived by riding his bike to work and then he walked to the Dominican Republic and seemed asylum at the u. s embassy in Santo Domingo most of his family and relatives died tragic event.
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When the quake happened I was on board a flight from San Juan to port au prince when the captain said that we were landing in Santo Domingo because they didn-t know if it was safe to land in port au prince afterwards I volunteered to help in Haiti during That I went to a friend-s house in melenas his house was completely destroyed and I was told several people died there I thought he died I was there for two weeks helping and over 5 years later I ran into him working at a restaurant in Orlando Florida I was so happy to see him he survived by riding his bike to work and then he walked to the Dominican Republic and seemed asylum at the u. s embassy in Santo Domingo most of his family and relatives died tragic event.
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-Chasstful
Racism and injustice caused Haiti's earthquake deaths? Your narrative only contains half the story. Haiti was the very first New World colony to gain its independence from a European colonial power. This was a curse. It led to decades without any technologic advances because of severe brain drain Most Latin American nations were in deep debt at some point They also have a tradition of political corruption, but none of them are anywhere near as bad off as Haiti. Haiti has received endless amounts of foreign aid and they have nothing to show for it. Where is the racism and injustice? They did this to themselves. You make excellent videos, but stick to the facts and leave out the SJW editorializing. corruptiuon,
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Racism and injustice caused Haiti's earthquake deaths? Your narrative only contains half the story. Haiti was the very first New World colony to gain its independence from a European colonial power. This was a curse. It led to decades without any technologic advances because of severe brain drain Most Latin American nations were in deep debt at some point They also have a tradition of political corruption, but none of them are anywhere near as bad off as Haiti. Haiti has received endless amounts of foreign aid and they have nothing to show for it. Where is the racism and injustice? They did this to themselves. You make excellent videos, but stick to the facts and leave out the SJW editorializing. corruptiuon,
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-justinrogers8166
Unpopular opinion but the island of Haiti itself may not be the best place to be when it comes to earthquakes which happens every 200 years ironically made the country so rich in natural resources that the west cannot even comprehend. Haiti-s government and the west interruption of haitis democracy is making it difficult for the island to explore all of its natural ressources. Haiti is believed to have one of the largest oil reservations in the world possibly several times larger than Venezuela.
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Unpopular opinion but the island of Haiti itself may not be the best place to be when it comes to earthquakes which happens every 200 years ironically made the country so rich in natural resources that the west cannot even comprehend. Haiti-s government and the west interruption of haitis democracy is making it difficult for the island to explore all of its natural ressources. Haiti is believed to have one of the largest oil reservations in the world possibly several times larger than Venezuela.
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-CAL523
I visited Haiti in 2010 and I can remember being in a park and watching a building collapse to the side of me. I ran to my rental car and drove away from the city I was like 1km away and my flight out of there was 2 days after that. I did not even board a flight there I crossed the border to the city of Punta Cana and I rented a bike in the Dominican Republic for a day and I rode it around there and after 10 days I left the back home and THAT WAS THE MOST SCARY THING IN MY ENTIRE LIFE
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I visited Haiti in 2010 and I can remember being in a park and watching a building collapse to the side of me. I ran to my rental car and drove away from the city I was like 1km away and my flight out of there was 2 days after that. I did not even board a flight there I crossed the border to the city of Punta Cana and I rented a bike in the Dominican Republic for a day and I rode it around there and after 10 days I left the back home and THAT WAS THE MOST SCARY THING IN MY ENTIRE LIFE
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reallifelore
8. 5 BILLION DOLLARS OF DAMAGE? no way in hell all those buildings cost that damn much. I was born in Haiti and have traveled there many times. I would place the price of all those badly built DEATH TRAPS at maybe 500 thousand. the level of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and science in Haiti is extremely low. most of those buildings are built on the FAITH OF CHRIST, not science. my family there are dying from a lack of knowledge.
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8. 5 BILLION DOLLARS OF DAMAGE? no way in hell all those buildings cost that damn much. I was born in Haiti and have traveled there many times. I would place the price of all those badly built DEATH TRAPS at maybe 500 thousand. the level of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and science in Haiti is extremely low. most of those buildings are built on the FAITH OF CHRIST, not science. my family there are dying from a lack of knowledge.
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-MrWhangdoodles
Tl; dr: Rabbits in Australia were introduced because people in the past were dumber than today. How did the Australians kill 99% of them? By reading in the fine print of the Geneva Conventions and noticing that it only applies to humans and bioengineering a virus to kill all the rabbits. It worked and now they need to do it again.
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Tl; dr: Rabbits in Australia were introduced because people in the past were dumber than today. How did the Australians kill 99% of them? By reading in the fine print of the Geneva Conventions and noticing that it only applies to humans and bioengineering a virus to kill all the rabbits. It worked and now they need to do it again.
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reallifelore
9: 50 added cost to the homes. OKEY
10: 20 60% of the hospitals collapsed. so are hospitals built as cheaply as the private houses?
8: 55 there is a lack of government oversight. EVEN IN GOVERNMENT BUILT HOSPITALS?
The Haiti's earthquake was deadly not because of poverty. But because of rampant government corruption.
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9: 50 added cost to the homes. OKEY
10: 20 60% of the hospitals collapsed. so are hospitals built as cheaply as the private houses?
8: 55 there is a lack of government oversight. EVEN IN GOVERNMENT BUILT HOSPITALS?
The Haiti's earthquake was deadly not because of poverty. But because of rampant government corruption.
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-danbujor5991
You always forget to mention haitian revolution for freedom was in 1791. From than on is all their doing. A haitian told me that many buildings colapsed because haitian people, not the french, stole the metal from concrete. Ive been in a 7. 2 earthquake and 4 buildings colapsed. Many weren't even cracked.
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You always forget to mention haitian revolution for freedom was in 1791. From than on is all their doing. A haitian told me that many buildings colapsed because haitian people, not the french, stole the metal from concrete. Ive been in a 7. 2 earthquake and 4 buildings colapsed. Many weren't even cracked.
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-mylesmantripp7911
Hey, love your videos! This one provoked a question, with alot of the low GDP's mentioned for countries in alot of your videos and the sickening gap in wealth around the world I wonder how many or what the most expensive country is that the richest people in the world could each theoretically buy?
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Hey, love your videos! This one provoked a question, with alot of the low GDP's mentioned for countries in alot of your videos and the sickening gap in wealth around the world I wonder how many or what the most expensive country is that the richest people in the world could each theoretically buy?
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-janetpattison8474
Incredible earthquakes brought down the continents of Atlantis and Lemuria, & I doubt they were doing nuclear testing. Now, with many countries wanting to do nuclear testing, how much damage is being done? and we must know that MASSIVE global earthquakes can be activated.
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Incredible earthquakes brought down the continents of Atlantis and Lemuria, & I doubt they were doing nuclear testing. Now, with many countries wanting to do nuclear testing, how much damage is being done? and we must know that MASSIVE global earthquakes can be activated.
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-Ash-lu8fz
The -first country to abolish slavery- was Persia, under Cyrus the great. But not within Persia itself, as it never practiced slavery, it was already forbidden there; but in the countries he conquered. He also made the first decree of human rights, he lived some 2600 years ago.
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The -first country to abolish slavery- was Persia, under Cyrus the great. But not within Persia itself, as it never practiced slavery, it was already forbidden there; but in the countries he conquered. He also made the first decree of human rights, he lived some 2600 years ago.
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-danielnarbett
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami which hit Aceh in Indonesia killed 228, 000 people (I had a friend from Perth studying there who sadly died. And it was a magnitude 9. 2 earthquake. Not sure why that's not mentioned at all as it was most definitely this century!
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The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami which hit Aceh in Indonesia killed 228, 000 people (I had a friend from Perth studying there who sadly died. And it was a magnitude 9. 2 earthquake. Not sure why that's not mentioned at all as it was most definitely this century!
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-Belinda-fg7md
I am haitian and my brother was born about a few hours after the earthquake thankfully the earthquake didn't hit where my family lived i remember living north of haiti but later i moved there its really sad ehat happened to Haiti
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I am haitian and my brother was born about a few hours after the earthquake thankfully the earthquake didn't hit where my family lived i remember living north of haiti but later i moved there its really sad ehat happened to Haiti
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-MGMattGZ
Why do people from USA (Kinda including me) Cal Dominican republic -The Dominican republic- it sounds weird like I've been there and they dont call it in English the dominican republic they say Dominican republic.
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Why do people from USA (Kinda including me) Cal Dominican republic -The Dominican republic- it sounds weird like I've been there and they dont call it in English the dominican republic they say Dominican republic.
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-crashstitches79
No engineers? No architects? But I thought melanin was power. Millions and millions and millions of Haitians and no construction science at all. Is it always gonna be somebody else's fault?
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No engineers? No architects? But I thought melanin was power. Millions and millions and millions of Haitians and no construction science at all. Is it always gonna be somebody else's fault?
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-breakingmania8927
Racism blamed for earthquakes now lol. Pretty bad when geology goes woke. If an earthquake kills a ton of people in rural alabama will it be racism if a ton of rednecks die? Probably not
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Racism blamed for earthquakes now lol. Pretty bad when geology goes woke. If an earthquake kills a ton of people in rural alabama will it be racism if a ton of rednecks die? Probably not
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-jdpayamps
-RealLifeLore How do you know that it was the UN peacekeepers that introduced Cholera to the Haitian river? And not as a result of poor infrastructure that was damaged by the earthquake.
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-RealLifeLore How do you know that it was the UN peacekeepers that introduced Cholera to the Haitian river? And not as a result of poor infrastructure that was damaged by the earthquake.
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-noelnemenjo1242
As i continue to watch and find answers, at mark 8: 48 i finally found it. theres no way one would survive a strong quake on that kind of terrain with such kind of infrastructure.
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As i continue to watch and find answers, at mark 8: 48 i finally found it. theres no way one would survive a strong quake on that kind of terrain with such kind of infrastructure.
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-KTHfan5
Haiti has been going through dictators and corrupt governments since there revolution, as most countries do after revolution. You can't bend the truth THAT much to fit your agenda.
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Haiti has been going through dictators and corrupt governments since there revolution, as most countries do after revolution. You can't bend the truth THAT much to fit your agenda.
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-ellaeadig263
I feel like most of us just cannot grasp how awful this earthquake was for Haiti. I mean, looking at all that damage PLUS a cholera epidemic. how do you recover from that?
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I feel like most of us just cannot grasp how awful this earthquake was for Haiti. I mean, looking at all that damage PLUS a cholera epidemic. how do you recover from that?
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-alexm566
Imagine if an event in the US or France or Germany caused 100k deaths and then gets pretty much forgotten in less than ten years. Shows you the true colors of the media.
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Imagine if an event in the US or France or Germany caused 100k deaths and then gets pretty much forgotten in less than ten years. Shows you the true colors of the media.
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reallifelore
This is how you teach history and geography. THIS!
Not boring, heavy books without pictures. Such things are for throwing at classmates or tossing out the window.
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This is how you teach history and geography. THIS!
Not boring, heavy books without pictures. Such things are for throwing at classmates or tossing out the window.
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-andrebee4451
The fact that France had the nerve to demand for reparations after enslaving Africans and bringing them to a foreign island to till the fields is just disgusting.
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The fact that France had the nerve to demand for reparations after enslaving Africans and bringing them to a foreign island to till the fields is just disgusting.
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-fireblaze8491
10: 22
60% hospitals destroyed
80% of schools destroyed
11: 36 Cholera outbreak
11: 55 15billion dollars were spent in aid from foreign governments
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10: 22
60% hospitals destroyed
80% of schools destroyed
11: 36 Cholera outbreak
11: 55 15billion dollars were spent in aid from foreign governments
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-alexm566
They also insisted only locals work on the rebuilding, which significantly slowed down everything, rather than paying experienced foreign workers with the aid money.
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They also insisted only locals work on the rebuilding, which significantly slowed down everything, rather than paying experienced foreign workers with the aid money.
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-Neyobe
Thank you for shining light on the Chinese earthquakes. Peope don-t realize that China has the most devastating earthquakes ever. Not Japan. Not India, not Chile
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Thank you for shining light on the Chinese earthquakes. Peope don-t realize that China has the most devastating earthquakes ever. Not Japan. Not India, not Chile
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reallifelore
Man, France was the real villain here, enslaved, then intimidated into paying protection money. Even the American occupation is a footnote compared to that.
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Man, France was the real villain here, enslaved, then intimidated into paying protection money. Even the American occupation is a footnote compared to that.
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-CheesiusCaesar69
RealLifeLore: -Its a really a lot and sad story about racism, prejudice and economic injustice-
My Brain: Wait hol up, the Earthquake was racist?
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RealLifeLore: -Its a really a lot and sad story about racism, prejudice and economic injustice-
My Brain: Wait hol up, the Earthquake was racist?
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