Haiti's History of Misery

January 12, 2010
At 4:53:09 p.m on Tuesday, Jan. 12, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake, centered only 15 miles southwest of Haiti's capital city, rocked the nation. The Red Cross estimates that between 45,000 and 50,000 people died in the quake.

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