This was designed for my Year 7 class and for the Haiti story pupils had their eyes closed and listen, they then completed slide 5, shared their ideas and thought about what would happen next. A short youtube clip is needed for slide 9, if you search CBS a week in Haiti it comes up. Images are from google searches and other online presentations.

2. What are the consequences of
earthquakes?
• Revise how earthquakes are
measured
• Explore the earthquake at Haiti
• Determine the devastation
earthquakes can cause

3. Quick Quiz!
1. What is the Richter scale?
2. What does it measure?
3. How does 9 compare to 1 on
the Richter scale?

4. Haiti

6. What do you think happened an hour
before this photo was taken
What do you think happened an hour
after this photo was taken

8. Haiti
Tuesday, 12 January
A magnitude of 7.0!

10. The Effects
• Happened 15 miles from the capital
(Port-au-Prince, I million people live
there!)
• 230,000 killed
• 300,000 injured
• 1 million homeless!
• Hospitals, communications, services
damaged

11. What are the consequences of
earthquakes?
• Revise how earthquakes are
measured
• Explore the earthquake at Haiti
• Determine the devastation
earthquakes can cause

13. AMPLITUDE

14. RICHTER
SCALE

15. EARTHQUAKE

16. MAGNITUDE

17. EPICENTRE

18. HYPOCENTRE

19. SEISMOGRAPH