Deadliest earthquakes
Haiti
Date: Jan. 12, 2010
The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince, the country's capital, was the largest to hit the region in more than 200 years. An estimated 222,570 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.3 million displaced. A study by the Inter-American Development Bank estimates the total cost of the disaster to be between $8 billion and $14 billion.
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