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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Geography Project: Linkin Park - Post 5

Post 5



Linkin Park released their Song, 'Not Alone' for the Haiti Earthquake Crisis on the 19th of January 2010. Money from the downloads of 'Not Alone' was donated to Haiti to help them recover from the earthquake.

Haiti is a Caribbean Country, on the Western Side of the island of Hispanola. Haiti is a Republic and has an estimated population of 9.720 million people.

Haiti is the third largest county in the Caribbean, with Cuba being the largest and the Dominican Repuclic being the second largest.

Haiti was once an extremely lush country, with 60% of the country covered in forest back in 1925. Since then, 98% of its original forest was cut down to be used for fuel. By cutting down the forest, the farmland fertile soil was destroyed, and this has now contributed to desertification in Haiti. Also, in addition to soil erosion in Haiti, deforestation had led to flooding, which in 2005, killed over 3,000 people.

Haiti has suffered from many natural disasters over the last few years, from Hurricanes, to tropical storms, to Earth Quakes.

On the 12th of January 2010, Haiti suffered from a very large earthquake, measuring 7.0 on the rictor scale. By January 24th of that year, a further 52 aftershocks, measuring 4.5 or greater on the rictor scale had been recorded. Haiti was destroyed, with many 250,000 residential and 30,000 commercial buildings destroyed, 316,000 people killed, and between 1.5 - 1.8 million people left homeless. The Epicenter was near the town of LĂ©ogane. Since the earthquake, many countries all over the world have offered their support and help.

By July 9th 2010, 1.3 billion had been raised to help Haiti, and even to this date, donations are still being given.

Since Linkin Park's Song for Haiti, They released an album in August 2010, 'A Thousand Suns'. Again, the music on the album is slightely different to their original sound. So far, they have released four singles from the album, which have all been very sucessful. Their fourth single, 'Iridescent' is being used on the Soundtrack for the Film 'Transformers:Dark Of The Moon' which is the third movie being released in the Transformers Franchise.

Many of their songs have reached the Billboard top 50 over the last few years, and their song, 'In the End' from their first album 'Hybrid Theory', remains in the top 10 rock songs of the 20th Century to this date.

Linkin Park have designed t-shirts recently, with all proceeds going to Japan, who had suffered from a tsunami in March 2011

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