Magnitude 7.2 earthquake, Haiti 2021

23/08/2021 17/10/2022

Sites

2
  • Les Cayes
  • L'Asile

Equipment deployed

2
  • Nomadic Power
  • Nomadic Power

Facts

At 12:29:08 (UTC) on August 14th, 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula, in the Caribbean nation of Haiti.

The Government of Haiti sent a request for international assistance to the EU Delegation in Port-au-Prince, which triggered the activation of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM).

Luxembourg deployed its emergency.lu solution and a team of three technicians within the UCPM framework and supported two European response teams by providing satellite connectivity; (1) the French water purification team in Las Cayes and (2) the Norwegian field hospital in L’Asile.

In addition, the team deployed a VHF radio repeater site in Les Cayes and Jeremie for the emergency telecommunications cluster. An expert from Luxembourg was part of the United Nations disaster assessment and coordination team.

Staff deployed

3
Alain Lang
Bram Krieps
Portrait of Philippe Hein Philippe Hein

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