11 Biggest Earthquakes around the World

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11. 2010 Haiti earthquake

Number of casualties: 160,000

Haiti was completely unprepared for the horrors nature unleashed on the small island in the afternoon of Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The poorest country in the Western hemisphere was completely dependent of foreign aid in the aftermath of magnitude 7 earthquake that obliterated nation’s capital and surrounding region.

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