Earthquake Fact-file:
• The quake struck on January 12, 2010 at 4:53 p.m.
• USGS: USGS called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti
• 3 million people in need of emergency aid after major earthquake
• The 7.0 magnitude quake's epicenter hit just 10 miles west of Porte-au-Prince and its 2 million inhabitants
• The major quake sent 33 aftershocks ranging in magnitude from 4.2 to 5.9
• The Red Cross dispatched a relief team from Geneva and the UN's World Food Program is flying in two planes with emergency food aid.
• Haiti has no real construction standards.
• The Inter-American Development Bank said it was immediately approving a $200,000 grant for emergency aid.
• Some 9,000 peacekeepers have been in Haiti since 2004, including 1,266 Brazilians.
• November 2008: Following the collapse of a school in Petionville, the mayor of Port-au-Prince estimated about 60% of buildings were shoddily built and unsafe in normal circumstances.
• 230,000--316,000: estimates of the death toll vary.
• 300,000: number of injured1.5 million: people initially displaced
• About 279,000: displaced people remain in 352 sites as of June 2013, according to a U.N. report
•$450 million: aid given to Haiti by USAID/OFDA
•$44 million: total USAID support for prevention and response to cholera
•$381.8 million: Received by trustees from a total of $396.1 million in pledges to the international Haiti Reconstruction Fund as of September 30, 2013.
•4,992: number of schools in Haiti affected by earthquake. Equals 23% of schools.
•More than 1,000: Haitian orphans adopted in the United States with assistance from the Help Haiti Act (as of December 2010 ).
•96: Death Toll of U.N. peacekeepers
•122: Americans confirmed dead
Other Haitian natural disaster:
• August and September 2008: Four separate hurricanes or tropical storms - Tropical Storm Fay and hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike - in the space of 30 days killing a total of 793 people and leaving more than 300 others missing, according to government figures. About 60 per cent of the country's harvest was destroyed and entire cities were rendered desolate and uninhabitable.
• September 2004: Hurricane Jeanne deluged the tiny Caribbean country. Resulting flooding and landslides killed up to 2,500 people and displacing thousands more.
• September 1998: Hurricane George killed more than 400 people while destroying 80 per cent of all the crops in the country.
• 1994: Hurricane Gordon killed over 1000 Haitians.
• 1963: Hurricane Flora killed over 8000 people, making it the 6th most deadly hurricane ever.
• 1954: Hurricane Hazel killed more than 100 people and destroyed several towns. The storm also wiped out 40 per cent of the coffee trees and 50 per cent of the cacao crop.
• November 1946: The largest recorded earthquake in modern times on the island of Hispaniola was an 8.1-magnitude temblor that produced a tsunami and killed 1,790 people. Centered in the Dominican Republic, it extended into Haiti.
• 1935: An unnamed storm killed more than 2000 people.
• USGS: USGS called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti
• 3 million people in need of emergency aid after major earthquake
• The 7.0 magnitude quake's epicenter hit just 10 miles west of Porte-au-Prince and its 2 million inhabitants
• The major quake sent 33 aftershocks ranging in magnitude from 4.2 to 5.9
• The Red Cross dispatched a relief team from Geneva and the UN's World Food Program is flying in two planes with emergency food aid.
• Haiti has no real construction standards.
• The Inter-American Development Bank said it was immediately approving a $200,000 grant for emergency aid.
• Some 9,000 peacekeepers have been in Haiti since 2004, including 1,266 Brazilians.
• November 2008: Following the collapse of a school in Petionville, the mayor of Port-au-Prince estimated about 60% of buildings were shoddily built and unsafe in normal circumstances.
• 230,000--316,000: estimates of the death toll vary.
• 300,000: number of injured1.5 million: people initially displaced
• About 279,000: displaced people remain in 352 sites as of June 2013, according to a U.N. report
•$450 million: aid given to Haiti by USAID/OFDA
•$44 million: total USAID support for prevention and response to cholera
•$381.8 million: Received by trustees from a total of $396.1 million in pledges to the international Haiti Reconstruction Fund as of September 30, 2013.
•4,992: number of schools in Haiti affected by earthquake. Equals 23% of schools.
•More than 1,000: Haitian orphans adopted in the United States with assistance from the Help Haiti Act (as of December 2010 ).
•96: Death Toll of U.N. peacekeepers
•122: Americans confirmed dead
Other Haitian natural disaster:
• August and September 2008: Four separate hurricanes or tropical storms - Tropical Storm Fay and hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike - in the space of 30 days killing a total of 793 people and leaving more than 300 others missing, according to government figures. About 60 per cent of the country's harvest was destroyed and entire cities were rendered desolate and uninhabitable.
• September 2004: Hurricane Jeanne deluged the tiny Caribbean country. Resulting flooding and landslides killed up to 2,500 people and displacing thousands more.
• September 1998: Hurricane George killed more than 400 people while destroying 80 per cent of all the crops in the country.
• 1994: Hurricane Gordon killed over 1000 Haitians.
• 1963: Hurricane Flora killed over 8000 people, making it the 6th most deadly hurricane ever.
• 1954: Hurricane Hazel killed more than 100 people and destroyed several towns. The storm also wiped out 40 per cent of the coffee trees and 50 per cent of the cacao crop.
• November 1946: The largest recorded earthquake in modern times on the island of Hispaniola was an 8.1-magnitude temblor that produced a tsunami and killed 1,790 people. Centered in the Dominican Republic, it extended into Haiti.
• 1935: An unnamed storm killed more than 2000 people.