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An estimated 650,000 people were in need of assistance. [ 8 ] At least 137,500 buildings were damaged or destroyed. [ 9 ][ 10 ] It is the deadliest earthquake and deadliest natural disaster of 2021. It is also the worst disaster to strike Haiti since the 2010 earthquake.
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. By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks ...
The earthquake caused part of a school to collapse in Gros-Morne, [6] damaged the façade of the Paroisse St. Michel A De Plaisance church in Plaisance, [7] caused a cultural center to collapse in Gros-Morne, [8] damaged a holding cell at the Police Nationale d'Haiti Commissariat de Port-de-Paix in Port-de-Paix, [9] allowing several detainees to escape, [8] caused an auditorium to collapse in ...
The 7.2 magnitude quake struck the Caribbean island nation Saturday morning, leaving more than 1,200 people dead.View Entire Post ›
Collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince. Damage to infrastructure in the 2010 Haiti earthquake was extensive and affected areas included Port-au-Prince, Petit-Goâve, Léogâne, Jacmel and other settlements in southwestern Haiti. In February Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 29 people were killed when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, just days before a tropical storm is expected to make landfall, and Prime ...
The 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak was the first modern large-scale outbreak of cholera —a disease once considered beaten back largely due to the invention of modern sanitation. The disease was reintroduced to Haiti in October 2010, not long after the disastrous earthquake earlier that year, and since then cholera has spread across the country ...
The death toll following a magnitude-7.2 earthquake in Haiti on August 14 had risen to 2,189 as of August 18, the country’s civil protection authority said.It added that over 12,200 people had ...