Earthquake of Haiti.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake would have had a magnitude of 7.0 degrees and would have generated at a depth of 10 km.
NOAA dismissed the danger of a tsunami in the area. This earthquake was the strongest recorded in the area since the events in 1770. The quake was felt in nearby countries such as Cuba, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, where it caused fear and precautionary evacuations.The effects caused on the poorest country in Latin America have been devastating. The bodies recovered on 25 January exceeded 150,000, calculated that the death toll could reach 200,000. It would also have produced more than 250,000 wounded and left a million homeless people. It is considered one of the most serious humanitarian disasters in history.
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*That notice is about the earthquake in Haití on 12 Jenuary of 2010. It was a big catastrophe because died much people, but above all childrens. Haiti is a country that it’s very poor, and they haven’t got device for detect earthquake. Now the houses, the road, the buidings.. are destroyed.
*Don’t affects me because the earthquake happened in the other country, but I feel bad for the people who live there. Now many families from others countries want to addopt childrens of Haití, and I agree with that.
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