January 12, 2010 (Year of the OX in the winter months 28), magnitude 7 earthquake occurred in Haiti.





local time on January 12, 2010 afternoon, the epicenter about 16 kilometers from the capital, Port-au-Prince, the 7.0 magnitude earthquake, the strongest earthquake in Haiti in 200 years, the focal depth of 8 km, the Prime Minister of Haiti said on the 13th, the strong earthquake caused The death toll could be as high as 100,000. [TodayinHistory.cn]

in the after sudden strong earthquake, the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince has become a mess. Presidential Palace, churches, hospitals, schools, prisons and all communities are severely damaged. Suffered nearly two hundred years the strongest earthquake in Haiti on the 13th are still unable statistics earthquake casualties, while the country's official estimated the number of victims may be more than 100,000 people. In In January 13, the presidential palace in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince were severely damaged in the earthquake. In In January 13, the United Nations Headquarters in New York in the United States, the United Nations Security Council the day before the official start of the open debate, should this month rotating presidency of the Council, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Zhang Yesui the proposal, the United Nations Secretary-General Pan Ki-moon, the representative of a member of the Security Council and the participants all stood up and observed one minute of silence for the victims of a strong earthquake in Haiti.