The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti, resulting in widespread devastation and an estimated 220,000 deaths. It severely damaged the country's infrastructure, leaving over one million homeless. International aid and recovery efforts continue to this day. It also triggered a cholera outbreak. Photo credits: 1st photo By USGS - https://web.archive.org/web/20100115110631/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake/2010rja6/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8971108; 2nd Photo by Marco Dormino/ The United Nations United Nations Development Programme - originally posted to Flickr as Haiti Earthquake, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8985657; 3rd Photo By EscombrosBelAir5.jpg: Marcello Casal Jr/ABrderivative work: Diliff (talk) - EscombrosBelAir5.jpg, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9443655. #haiti #devastating #Earthquakes #SeismicActivity #TectonicPlates #MagnitudeScale #NaturalDisaster #SafetyTips #Seismology #PlateBoundary #FaultLine #SeismicWaves #RichterScale #Epicenter #Tsunami #Aftershocks #RescueEfforts #GeologicalHazards #NaturalCatastrophe #GeologicalPhenomena #EarthquakeAwareness #GeologicalEvents #DisasterSurvival #SeismicHazard #shorts #didyouknow #facts