How Haiti Was Devastated by Two Natural Disasters in Three Days - The New York Times

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A magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck Haiti Saturday morning, killing more than 1,900 and leaving thousands injured and displaced from their homes. As people in the affected regions in the country’s southwest worked to recover with scarce resources, a severe storm — Grace, then a tropical depression — drenched Haiti in heavy rain on Monday, bringing with it flash floods and the threat of mudslides, which could further delay recovery.

Caribbean

Sea

Area affected by earthquake

and storm in Haiti

Lower population

Damage reported

Gonave

Island

Port-au-

Prince

Petit-Trou-de-

Nippes

Anse-à-Veau

Very

strong

shaking

Aug. 14 Epicenter

of earthquake

Île-à-Vache

Aug. 16, 8 p.m.

Storm batters Haiti

Aug. 17, 2 a.m.

Path of Tropical

Storm Grace

Aug. 16, 2 p.m.

Area affected by earthquake

and storm in Haiti

Lower pop.

Damage reported

Caribbean

Sea

Gonave

Island

Port-au-

Prince

Petit-Trou-de-

Nippes

Anse-à-Veau

Very

strong

shaking

Aug. 14 Epicenter

of earthquake

Île-à-Vache

Aug. 16, 8 p.m.

Storm batters Haiti

Aug. 17, 2 a.m.

Path of Tropical

Storm Grace

Area affected by earthquake

and storm in Haiti

Lower pop.

Damage reported

Very strong shaking

Strong shaking

Moderate shaking

Light shaking

Caribbean

Sea

Port-au-

Prince

Aug. 14 Epicenter

of earthquake

Aug. 17, 2 a.m.

Path of Grace,

now a tropical storm

Aug. 16, 8 p.m.

Storm batters Haiti

Area affected by earthquake

and storm in Haiti

Lower pop.

Damage reported

Very strong shaking

Strong shaking

Moderate shaking

Light shaking

Caribbean

Sea

Port-au-

Prince

Aug. 14 Epicenter

of earthquake

Aug. 17, 2 a.m.

Path of Tropical

Storm Grace

Aug. 16, 8 p.m.

Storm batters Haiti

Sources: U.S. Geological Survey (earthquake intensity); WorldPop (population); U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Reuters and local media (reported damage)

Although some light shaking from the earthquake could be felt as far as Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, 80 miles from the epicenter, major damage was concentrated in the country’s Nippes, Sud, and Grand’Anse departments. When the shaking subsided, vast swaths of Haiti had ever so slightly moved. The map below shows displaced areas in Haiti, evidence of where the earth shifted after the earthquake.

Petit-Trou-

de-Nippes

Anse-à-Veau

Epicenter of

magnitude-7.2

earthquake

How much the ground

sank or rose

Area of

detail

Île-à-Vache

1 foot or more

Petit-Trou-

de-Nippes

Anse-à-Veau

Epicenter of

magnitude-7.2

earthquake

How much the ground

sank or rose

Area of

detail

Île-à-Vache

1 foot or more

Petit-Trou-

de-Nippes

Anse-à-Veau

Epicenter of

magnitude-7.2

earthquake

How much the ground

sank or rose

Area of

detail

Île-à-Vache

1 foot or more

Petit-Trou-

de-Nippes

Anse-à-Veau

Epicenter of

magnitude-7.2

earthquake

Île-à-Vache

Area of

detail

How much the ground

sank or rose

1 foot or more

Petit-Trou-

de-Nippes

Anse-à-Veau

Epicenter of

magnitude-7.2

earthquake

Île-à-Vache

Area of

detail

How much the ground

sank or rose

1 foot or more

Area of

detail

Petit-Trou-

de-Nippes

Epicenter of

magnitude-7.2

earthquake

Île-à-Vache

How much the ground

sank or rose

1 foot or more

Sources: U.S. Geological Survey (epicenter); NASA/JPL-Caltech (Copernicus Sentinel-1 data analysis)·Note: This change in the earth’s surface illustrates the scale of the earthquake, but it does not indicate location or amount of damage.

Les Cayes

A number of homes and school buildings were damaged in Les Cayes, a seaport community about 20 miles from the earthquake’s epicenter. Local hospitals were quickly overwhelmed, and a very limited number of doctors and surgeons worked through the night to triage victims. Temporary operating rooms near the main airport in Les Cayes were erected, as people tried to evacuate their loved ones to Port-au-Prince for emergency care.

U.S. Coast Guard members arrived in Port-au-Prince with an injured boy they brought for care from the Ofatma Hospital in Les Cayes.Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

Even before the quake, living conditions had been unstable for many Haitians as the pandemic added to severe poverty, gang violence and political trauma — the still-unsolved July 7 assassination of President Juvenel Moïse.

The earthquake also destroyed several churches that have served as sources of aid and stability to surrounding communities, especially to those that receive little support from the government.

A woman walking past the damaged Sacred Heart church in Les Cayes.Fernando Llano/Associated Press

Among the collapsed buildings in Les Cayes was Hôtel Le Manguier, where rescue teams continued to dig through the rubble and remove debris in the days after the earthquake hit.

Hôtel Le Manguier in Les Cayes

Jan. 24, 2020

August 15, 2021

Satellite imagery by Maxar Technologies, via Reuters (above); Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters (below)

People in Les Cayes who lost their homes spent Monday night sheltering under plastic sheets in makeshift camps or fleeing flooded refugee camps as the storm passed through.

Reuters

Richard Pierrin/Getty Images

Jérémie

Jérémie, the capital city of the Grand’Anse department in Haiti, also suffered severe damage. Just five years ago, Jérémie was hit by Hurricane Matthew, which destroyed a wave of development that had brought hotels, cell phone service and new roads to the previously isolated region. Saturday’s earthquake caused destruction that overwhelmed the city’s main hospital and triggered a landslide that cut off access to the road leading to the city.

The severely damaged road to Camp-Perrin leading to Jérémie.Reginald Louissaint Jr/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Like in Les Cayes, several churches in Jérémie were damaged, including the St. Louis King of France Cathedral, a landmark place of worship in the area that had also been damaged by Hurricane Matthew.

St. Louis King of France Cathedral in Jérémie

August 14, 2020

August 15, 2021

Maxar Technologies, via Reuters

Petit-Trou-De-Nippes

Petit-Trou-De-Nippes

In Petit-Trou-De-Nippes, just five miles from the earthquake’s epicenter, phone lines were down in the area with no news immediately available. Landslides in nearby cities were recorded, according to the National Human Rights Defense Network, leaving parts of the Nippes department accessible only by motorcycle or sea.

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