2010 Haiti Earthquake

The 2010 Haiti earthquake (magnitude 7.0) killed approximately 160,000 to 316,000 people — estimates vary widely — and left 1.5 million homeless in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. The earthquake's extraordinary death toll resulted from Haiti's extreme poverty: buildings had no earthquake resistance, there was no functioning emergency response system, and the country's political dysfunction meant that international aid was slow and partially mismanaged. Ten years later, most Haitians displaced by the earthquake still had not found permanent housing.