Jan 12, 2010… Haiti is hit by a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne and approximately 25 km west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. It was a Tuesday and the earthquake occurred at 4:43 PM (local time).
That is the most devastating earthquake in history.
Over 300 000 people lost their lives, 1.5 million left homeless or displaced and created between $7.8 billion and $8.5 billion in damage.
A decade later where are we? 📝 credit: @lucknerjoseph –
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On Tuesday, January 12th 2010 at exactly 4:53 pm Haiti was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter Scale. The main shock lasted about 30 seconds, and was followed by several aftershocks in the following weeks, including 8 within the next 2 hours with a magnitude going as high as 5.9 A tsunami was also reported in a small fishing town.
This crumbled Haiti’s already fragile economy, destroyed the infrastructures for the population’s basic needs, hospitals, hotels, cellphone towers, houses, buildings and last but not least, hundreds of thousands of humans’ lives were lost, haitian natives and foreigners. Many family were broken, parentless children. It left people with a lot of psychological damage and physical damage: mental health issues, depression, amputees, etc.

In front of that misfortune, social classes disappeared that day, instead “WE STOOD UNITED” we saw unity among the haitian people and lots of support from the whole world. “L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE” is the motto and the words on Haiti’s coat of arms and on that day It was alive!

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