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One of the worst natural disasters, Earthquake had taken place in the starting of the year 2010 in Haiti. In 2010 Haiti Earthquake, millions of people are affected; thousands of people died and many of them lost their houses and family members or relatives. Here is provided the information of 2010 Haiti Earthquake and video from Youtube of Terremoto En Haiti 2010.

2010 Haiti Earthquake had strike at 16:53:09 local time (21:53:09 UTC) on Tuesday 12 January 2010. It was a magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake centered approximately 10 miles (16 km) from Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The Earthquake was afterward followed by numerous aftershocks recorded by the United States Geological Survey and 12 of them between magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9.

After an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, see below a view of the defectively damaged presidential palace.

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2010 Haiti Earthquake details

Date and time:
- Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 21:53:10 UTC
- Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 04:53:10 PM at epicenter
Magnitude: 7.0
Depth: 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) set by location program
Location: 18.457°N, 72.533°W
Region: HAITI region
Countries affected: Dominican Republic, Cuba, The Bahamas, Jamaica

The eyewitnesses reported that there is a heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, in 2010 Haiti Earthquake. Till Tuesday evening there was no estimate of the dead and wounded, and the number is going on increasing. Haitian President, Rene Preval told that his government wants help for clearing streets so rescuers can reach some of the hardest-hit areas as the basic services like water and electricity were out. Preval said, "We need medicine, we need medical help in general, some of the hospitals, they collapsed."

The United Nations said in a statement that the headquarters of the United Nations mission was badly damaged, and many employees were missing and part of the national palace had collapsed. Felix Augustin, Haiti's consul general said to the U.N., Port-au-Prince "is flattened.”

Fast facts about 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Since the events in 1770, this was the strongest earthquake recorded in the area
The Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive announced that in excess of 70,000 bodies have been buried in mass graves.
About three million people were affected by the quake, as per The International Red Cross estimation
As a result of the disaster, Haitian Interior Minister believes that up to 200,000 have died greater than earlier Red Cross estimates of 45,000–50,000.
A number of prominent public figures are among the dead.

Within a short period after the earthquake that hit the country, humanitarian aid was instant, including the United States, countries in Latin America and Europe, the International Red Cross, the Ibero-American Secretariat, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), International Monetary Fund International (IMF) and World Bank (WB) among others, announced the shipment of money, food, volunteers, firefighters, experts and even specialized search dogs to assist the Caribbean nation.

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