Earthquake in Haiti Devastates Port-Au-Prince
A major earthquake struck the southern portion of Haiti on January 12, 2010 shortly before 5 P.M. knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting catastrophic devastation on the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. A United States Geological Survey (USGS) geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770. The earthquake was felt as far as the Dominican Republic and eastern Cuba. It is well known that Haiti is an extremely poor country and as a result more than 60% of the buildings in the country are unsafe at the best of times. Presently much of the country's phone system, both ...
