Earthquake — Haiti: Port-Au-Prince

When

12 Jan 2010

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.0

Where

Haiti

Coordinates

18.46° N, 72.53° W

Deaths

316000

Injuries

300000

Damage musd

8000

Houses destroyed

97294

Depth km

13

Magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake

A catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest department, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake is locally nicknamed Goudougoudou, an onomatopoeia for the sound of collapsing buildings.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2010 Haiti depremi: Haiti'nin başkenti Port-au-Prince'i yerle bir eden 7.0 büyüklüğünde bir deprem meydana geldi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem Erdbeben in Haiti sterben etwa 220.000 Menschen, über eine Million Menschen werden obdachlos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un séisme de magnitude 7,1 frappe l'île, suivi d'une réplique le 20 janvier provoquant la mort de personnes selon les estimations”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “землетрясение на Гаити”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Haití, un devastador terremoto de 7,0, con epicentro a 15 kilómetros de Puerto Príncipe, deja 316.000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ハイチで大地震が発生し、25万人が死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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