7.0 in Haiti!!!

[Macrocane]

Unbelievable! It's aproaching the 2004 Asian tsunami death toll with the difference that the tsunami deaths were registered in several countries and these earthquake's deaths are reproted only in one small country

[Stephanie]

Death toll up to 212,000

OMG! That's twice than the original estimate.

[HurricaneBill]

Unbelievable! It's aproaching the 2004 Asian tsunami death toll with the difference that the tsunami deaths were registered in several countries and these earthquake's deaths are reproted only in one small country

212,000 is around 2% of Haiti's total population.

[Cyclenall]

Death toll up to 212,000

Didn't hear of it until now, wow.

Unbelievable! It's aproaching the 2004 Asian tsunami death toll with the difference that the tsunami deaths were registered in several countries and these earthquake's deaths are reproted only in one small country

212,000 is around 2% of Haiti's total population.

This statistic probably what is the most incredible about this disaster. Measuring the % of the population that lost their lives is one way to weigh the level of catastrophe and this one is near off the charts folks. I remember doing the same after Cyclone Nargis in May of 2008 and only around <0.002% of Myanmar's total population was gone.

[HurricaneBill]

The 2010 Haiti earthquake is now #7 on the list of the deadliest earthquakes of all-time.

#10. 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake (Japan) 142,000 deaths

#9. 893 Ardabil Earthquake (Iran) 150,000 deaths

#8. 856 Damghan Earthquake (Iran) 200,000 deaths

#7. 2010 Haiti Earthquake 212,000 deaths

#6. 1138 Aleppo Earthquake (Syria) 230,000 deaths

#5. 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake 230,210 deaths

#4. 1920 Haiyuan Earthquake (China) 234,117 deaths

#3. 1976 Tangshan Earthquake (China) 242,419 deaths

#2. 526 Antioch Earthquake (Turkey) 250,000 deaths

#1. 1556 Shaanxi Earthquake (China) 830,000 deaths

[cycloneye]

Man is pulled alive from rubble after almost a month



Now,how in the world this man survived for almost a month trapped in the rubble?

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/ameri ... index.html

[HurricaneBill]

Haiti raises earthquake's death toll to 230,000

[Macrocane]

I didn't think it was going to reach the 2004 tsunami death toll levels.

[WeatherLovingDoc]

Magnitude 4.7
Date-Time

* Monday, February 22, 2010 at 09:36:02 UTC
* Monday, February 22, 2010 at 04:36:02 AM at epicenter


Location 18.518°N, 72.551°W
Depth 4.2 km (2.6 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region HAITI REGION
Distances 25 km (15 miles) W of PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
130 km (80 miles) ENE of Les Cayes, Haiti
145 km (90 miles) SSW of Cap-Haitien, Haiti
1125 km (700 miles) SE of Miami, Florida
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.8 km (3.6 miles); depth +/- 9 km (5.6 miles)
Parameters NST= 60, Nph= 60, Dmin=6 km, Rmss=1.14 sec, Gp= 43°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=8

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010taau.php