NATURE ISSUE

By Anup Shah, This Page Last Updated Monday, February 01, 2010.

Haiti (Nature Disaster)

A massive earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hit Haiti near its capital, Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. This situation caused over 150,000 is confirmed dead and 1.5 million left homeless.

The quake was also felt in neighboring areas including Dominican Republic, in Turks and Caicos Islands, southeastern Cuba, eastern Jamaica, in parts of Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, and as far as Tampa, Florida and Caracas, Venezuela, according to the US Geological Survey.

The immense poverty of Haiti, its weak infrastructure and poor quality buildings have contributed to the large death toll and massive destruction.