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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.
Some of the earthquakes in Haiti have been very destructive to the country. The widespread damage and high-number of casualties of events in 2010 and 2021 can be partially blamed on the fact that most of the population in Haiti resides in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking, in which they are made of stone and concrete.
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]
It includes 2010 deaths that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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.
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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 ...
2010 Haiti earthquake: Haiti: January 12, 2010: 3. 250,000 –300,000 [8] 526 Antioch earthquake: Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) May 526: 4. 273,407 [11] 1920 Haiyuan earthquake: Ningxia, Republic of China (now People's Republic of China) December 16, 1920: 5. 270,000 1303 Hongdong earthquake [44] Mongol Empire (now China) September 17, 1303: 6 ...