Global News- Powerful M7.0 earthquake strikes Haiti’s capital

Source: Asia Insurance Review | Feb 2010

powerful earthquake shook Haiti on 12 January at 4:53pm local time. The epicentre was located 16 km southwest of Port-au-Prince (population: 2 million), the Haitian capital. The US Geological Survey (USGS) issued a magnitude estimate of M7.0 and a focal depth of 10 km, according to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide.

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