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The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 M w earthquake that struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne , Ouest department , approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince , Haiti's capital.
This is a list of populated places and structures affected by the 2010 Haiti earthquake, a magnitude 7.0 M w earthquake that occurred on 12 January 2010, with an epicentre approximately 25 km (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, [1] and affected an estimated three million people. [2]
12 January: the magnitude 7.0 2010 Haiti earthquake which occurred on 12 at 16:53, local time. The earthquake killed between 100,000 and 316,000 people. Its epicentre was at approximately 25 km from Port-au-Prince, the capital. A dozen secondary shocks of magnitudes ranging from 5.0 to 5.9 were registered during the hours which followed.
View Article The post How not to repeat the mistakes of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake and where to donate appeared first on TheGrio. Saturday’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake decimated Haiti’s southern ...
1 2010 Haiti earthquake. ... Location in Haiti. ... A tsunami wave three metres or higher hit the beach shortly after the 12 January 2010 earthquake killing several ...
An Associated Press report in 2010 found that less than 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. gave for Haiti’s earthquake relief was actually going to the country in the form of cash to the government ...
Combs shared the video in 2010 to raise funds for relief efforts after an earthquake in Haiti killed thousands.
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in 1770. The 1907 Kingston earthquake damaged every building in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] The 2010 magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred near Port-au-Prince along blind thrust faults associated with this fault zone. [5] [6] The 2021 Haiti earthquake (magnitude 7.2) struck Haiti's ...