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Earthquake in Haiti
Daniel Morel
12 January, 2010
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January caused the collapse of a total of 188,383 buildings.
Daniel Morel
Daniel Morel was born in Haiti in 1951. The day he discovered photography wasn't the happiest of days, but it set the stage for the rest of his life. It was November 12, 1964, in...
Port-au-Prince, Haiti A woman is rescued from rubble, on Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the main commercial arteries in Port-au-Prince, minutes after the quake. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January caused the collapse of a total of 188,383 buildings, of which 105,000 were completely destroyed. The quake struck a land that, depleted by decades of instability, was already the poorest country in the Americas.
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