Isaiahadrien

 Due to Haiti's location, they are susceptible to a numerous amount of extreme weather events. The most infamous one being the 2010 earthquake is easily the most devastating and notorious for the country's history. But due to being so close to the equator, they are also prone to dealing with hurricanes, tropical storms, and heavy rain. The last major hurricane to hit Haiti was hurricane Matthew on October 4, 2016. In 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the western part of the country, being the second biggest earthquake in the country's history behind the 2010 earthquake. Because of the island's location, being extremely close to the equator as well as it's tectonic plates, it makes Haiti extremely venerable to potentially very harmful extreme weather events.  Source: https://concernusa.org/news/haiti-timeline-history/#:~:text=2016:%20Hurricane%20Matthew%20hits%20amid,a%20lack%20of%20humanitarian%20funding.

       Haiti's geography and tectonics combined create conditions that are conducive to landslides, which are a type of mass wasting. One of the consequences of the 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010, was the summation of landslides up to 4,500, all of them occurring on a 2,150 km land surface. The slope failures which consisted of falling rocks, debris flooded down, and ground slipping, did not get distributed randomly. Instead, they were mostly clustered in areas where the combination of steep mountains, rough terrains along with complex fault activities had taken place. A prime example of this is the region around the intersection of the Léogâne blind thrust fault and the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden Fault. Interestingly enough, in comparison to other earthquakes, the landslides mostly occurred not above the main rupture area (hanging wall) but in high land that was uplifted. This is a clear case where topography and rupture dynamics dominate the distribution of lan...