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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. By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks ...
U.S. Air Force pararescueman climb a ladder to save a survivor at the collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 19, 2010. The response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake included national governments, charitable and for-profit organizations from around the world which began coordinating humanitarian aid designed to help the Haitian people.
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 ...
Operation Unified Response. Medics from the US Army 's 95th Civil Affairs Brigade deliver a baby during relief efforts. The mother named the female child "Samantha" after Uncle Sam. Operation Unified Response was the United States military's response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. [1] It was conducted by Joint Task Force Haiti and commanded by ...
The timeline of rescue efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010 involves the sequence of events in the days following a highly destructive 7.0 Mw earthquake with an epicenter 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With at least 70% of the city's buildings destroyed, [1] the earthquake also caused ...
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the Mariana Islands on August 18. [ 153 ] A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on August 20. [ 154 ] A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Jalisco, Mexico on August 23. [ 155 ] A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Damghan in northern Iran on August 27.
The 2010 Baja California earthquake (also known as 2010 Easter earthquake, 2010 Sierra El Mayor earthquake, or 2010 El Mayor – Cucapah earthquake) occurred on April 4 (Easter Sunday) with a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). The shock originated at 15:40:41 local time (3:40:41 PM PDT) south of ...
What Storm, What Thunder is a novel written by Myriam J. A. Chancy, a Haitian-Canadian-American writer. Inspired to tell the unheard stories of the 2010 Haiti earthquake catastrophe that plagued the lives of an entire island and killed hundreds of thousands of people, she demonstrates different perspectives of this unexpected event. [6]