Roads were blocked due to earthquake damage. Here, a girl stands in front of a massive crack in the highway near Petit-Goâve
On 12 January 2010 a huge earthquake, registering a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale, struck the Caribbean island nation of Haiti (see Figure 1). Haiti has a history of destructive earthquakes but this was the worst in 200 years.
The epicentre was near Léogâne, 25 km west of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince (Figure 2). By 24 January at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater on the Richter scale had been recorded.
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